Money In The Great Gatsby

When talking about money, always balance the importance of it by the eternal goals it can help you attain. Remember that money is only a tool. The motivations behind getting money is to help you achieve your dreams and visions in life as Gatsby tried to do. Although Jay Gatsby believed that by using wealth it would help him achieve his goal in love, status, and prosperity. Gatsby and the other characters in the novel strived to reach their definition of the “American Dream.” We understand that the possession of money and material objects do not always lead to the possession of intangible virtues, as proven in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. Which is seen through an undefined battle between old money and new money, Daisy and

Noting, “...Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.” “They're such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the think folds. “It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.” (Fitzgerald Chapter 5: 94.) The wealth by which she is surrounded seems to have overpowered her; she did not cry when she laid eyes on the face of Gatsby at Nick's home shortly before being invited to Mr. Jay Gatsby's home, but yet is driven to emotion and tears upon seeing the beauty of his material possessions. Before all his wealth came into play, Gatsby was not wealthy enough for daisy but they loved each other. When she saw all the shirts she realized something big. When she was confronted with proof that Gatsby now has wealth beyond the basic standard she had when she was a younger woman, she is confronted at the idea that she could have had it all. She could have married the man she first loved and been wealthy too. "Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now--isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once--but I loved you too." This could also depict as to why Daisy truly stayed with Tom after everything, at one point she did love tom because of the lifestyle he was able to provide her with there daughter ”If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay,” said Gatsby. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” “Daisy put her arm through his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was