Money Doesn T Buy Happiness In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

It can be easy to observe the glitz and glamour of high society and be instantly mesmerized by the lavish lifestyles that we wish we could partake in. Often, this flashy facade deceives those in lesser circles into thinking that the rich have it all. Unfortunately, the phrase money can't buy happiness is incredibly true and is portrayed in the book The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, very vividly. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's untimely demise and desolate funeral to highlight that compromising oneself in pursuing high societal status and fame leads to a tragic end. The author does a beautiful job of brutally illustrating that desperately aspiring to be accepted isn't the secret to a happy life and will not fulfill what really

Gatsby viewed people as objects that could help him get what he wanted. An example of this shows up in chapter 8 when Nick comments on the fact that Gatsby even had an ulterior motive for forming a relationship with Daisy when he says “It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy—it increased her value in his eyes.” as he viewed her as an object with a certain value attached to it. This quote shows that although Gatsby appeared to be the hero of this story, his mindset was more selfish because after such a long time of chasing his shallow dream, his morals became incredibly compromised. Gatsby liked to be in control and wanted his fantasies to materialize exactly how they were in his head, so he tried to gaslight Daisy into fitting into his puzzle. When Daisy didn't say the exact words he wanted, the high stress and anxiety caused irrational decisions to be made which resulted in the death of Myrtle, Tom's mistress. Although Gatsby didn’t deserve to be murdered, especially because he wasn't even the culprit, he did bring it on himself as all of the decisions he made up to that point manifested in that