Money And Class In The Great Gatsby

Money,class,love: everyone craves them, but can one person possess all three and be happy? The characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, they struggle to figure out how to have all three while staying alive and happy. Gatsby and Nick live in West Egg, Daisy and Tom live in East Egg, and the Wilsons live in The Valley Of Ashes. Gatsby and Daisy have a past, Daisy and Nick are cousins,Tom and Daisy are married, Myrtle Wilson and George Wilson were married, and Tom and Myrtle were having an affair. Daisy and Gatsby have a love story that gets revealed throughout the book. Gatsby loves Daisy so much it gets him into trouble where it would’ve been best if he never reached out to her after she married Tom. Throughout the book the

Jordan later goes on to tell Nick about how Daisy was the most popular girl and how she admired her the most out of all the other girls. The reader can infer that Jordan looked up to her the most because of the wealth and class she portrayed in the beginning of how Jordan described Daisy the first thing she talks about is her white clothing and white car which would be the first impression for anyone first meeting Daisy it was showing all the class,and wealth she had. But in reality that was all a cover up for how unhappy she was even though she had all the wealth,and class that came with owning the color white. When Nick first sees Daisy for the first time in a long time she starts talking to him about her wedding and how he didn’t come but he wasn’t back from war yet she then goes on to say, “Well I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything”(16). Daisy goes onto tell Nick more about how un happy this proves class, and wealth don’t always make someone happy. The symbol white proves that class, and money can be a persona and that someone could actually not be as happy as they seem and that those things are just objects that can be replaced and happiness

Nick would watch the people arrive to be the entertainment at Gatsby’s party. “By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums”(40). All these people arrived every night Gatsby threw a party, the parties made Gatsby appear to be a very rich and classy man, but Gatsby only threw all those parties to get Daisy’s attention. He never socialized much at his parties because Daisy wasn’t attending them. Nick said goodnight to Daisy when she finally came to one of Gatsby’s parties and as she was leaving he thought to himself, “After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby’s party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her mind”(108). Nick was thinking this because there were opportunities where Daisy and Gatsby could have been in love and then maybe Gatsby would’ve been happy. The novel gives the reader examples of wealth,class,and love and gives them the choice to decide if the characters are truly happy. When Nick first goes to Daisy’s and Tom’s he sees her in all white. “They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the