What would you do if someone in your family was dying of heart disease? Would you do whatever necessary to make sure they get that new heart or watch them slowly past? In this article you will be reading about the repetition of people doing whatever it takes to gain wealth in american culture. Going against their values, families, and beliefs. While it seems once they achieve their end goal they gain many more problems with the difficulty of money. In the Great Gatsby this idea is portrayed by the character Jay Gatsby. He is a successful bootlegger that gained his wealth by illegally distributing alcohol. He does this to not only make himself look better but to win the woman of his dreams Daisy Buchanan. While he is wealthy now it was not always this way. Growing up his family was very poor which motivated him to get money each and every way he can. This lead to him leaving his family and meeting Dan Cody, a wealthy man that took him in and introduced him to bootlegging. The thought of dying could scare these people that gain money the wrong way. They realize that what they are doing is wrong and don’t know where they will end up. In the article “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” explains people that have done bad things in their life and have to face god in the “afterlife” In the article it states, “He is not only able to …show more content…
The quote shows just how poor the little boy and his family is and how many problems they have to face. They are treated poorly in their town due to their lack of wealth. This story exposes problems we have today in the society we live in now. People with less benefits are treated poorly and judged for the way that they live, when we could be helping our people and trying to get them back on track. This sense of feeling like an outsider can cause people to start doing anything for money and a better