“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald the novel focuses on Jay Gatsby, a guy whose existence revolves around his desire to reunite with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years ago. As Gatsby's ideal of adoring Daisy is shattered by the disparity in their social standings, his resorting to crime to impress her, and the unrestrained materialism that characterizes her existence. Gatsby's journey takes him from poverty to fortune, into the arms of his beloved, and ultimately to death. The narrative is not a Marxist book, but it contains a few elements of the Marxist perspective and criticism of capitalism. “Marxism is a social, political, and economic philosophy named after the 19th-century German philosopher and economist Karl Marx. His