Examples Of Happiness In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby: Can Money Buy Happiness? “‘Her voice is full of money,’” (p. 127, Fitzgerald). Gatsby says this when he is talking about Daisy. This is Fitzgerald's way of saying that Daisy represents the social class and money Gatsby thinks he needs. Fitzgerald wrote many books, but one of the most popular is The Great Gatsby. In the book he criticizes the upper class of the 1920s and how they lived. This is shown through the idea that rich people do not have it all and money doesn't buy happiness. Just like Daisy’s voice sounds like money, the upper class of the 1920s was focused on money and material things, but they were not as happy as they seem. Tom and Daisy are rich and have a family together. To an outsider they look like the perfect little family, but that is not the truth. Tom has a mistress and Daisy knows. This is why she says, “That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool,” (p. 21). This shows that she wishes she was a fool, so she would not notice how her husband cheats on her. Even though they have money and a daughter they are not happy at all with each other. Daisy cares so much about material things that she can't appreciate anything Tom does for her. She starts crying when she sees Gatsby's shirts because, “‘They are such beautiful shirts… It makes me sad because I’ve

Before they go to the graveyard he noticed that “The minister glanced several times at his watch so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came,” (p. 182). This shows that the people only cared about Gatsby's money and not him. The only people that cared about him were Nick and Wolfshiem, but Wolfshiem cannot get caught up in the funeral business. Nick does not want any of Gatsby’s money and only attends a few of his parties, yet he is the one that cares the most. He runs around trying to find people to attend the funeral and gets his dad to