Why Is Mark Cuban Important In The Great Gatsby

One of the heroes in my life who I strive to be like is Mark Cuban. He is a smart man who build himself up to where he is today through hard work, and being able to fully trust his intuitions. Mark Cuban resembles Jay Gatsby because they built themselves up, hold power and trust their intuitions, but they are both driven by one specific resource money. The values and goals of nearly every character in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are driven by money, eventually leading to a loss of love throughout the novel. When reading the novel anyone can see the examples of wealth leading to a loss of love through the relationships of Gatsby and Daisy, Daisy and Tom, and finally Tom and Myrtle. Throughout the novel love is almost

The average reader might say while reading the novel that Tom and Daisy were in love at a young age which lead to the poor decision to be married. Later it is easy to see that Daisy just wanted a lavish and care free life while Tom just wants to have the trophy wife at his side. Daisy even knew when she was getting married that all Tom was doing was buying her love which is obvious when Jordan describes Daisy's wedding gift from Tom "He gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars." (76). After reading this you believe that from the beginning Daisy was only into Tom for the money, but this is later contradicted when Daisy says to Gatsby "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." (132). Here she says she loved Tom, but as with all of the characters the only thing missing from the entire novel is love. Daisy is constantly being blinded by the money to see what is really going on that the men don't know how to love and the women don't either, they just know how to be

Tom and Myrtle's relationship is the definition of all money and no love. Tom has bought an apartment in the city for him to have a place to conduct his affair and she can live like the affluent. Their relationship is best described when Tom buys the dog for Myrtle and he says "Here's your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it." (28). This is literally showing Tom will spend anything to be with Myrtle, and that money is no object. While reading about the relationships that Tom has with the women in the novel the reader may even conclude that Tom treats all women as objects. Tom as a man seems to not even care about love all tom cares about is having any women in his bed at the end of a night. This relationship is nothing close to love which is obvious based on how the night at the apartment ends with Tom hitting his mistress. This is the lowest thing Tom could have done and it leaves an irreversible black eye on lis character for the rest of the novel, which is one of the few things he can not pay to