Why Is Money Important In The Great Gatsby

Don’t we all love having that green, wrinkled, and admired paper in our hands? The same green paper that makes the world revolve every day and night. The same wrinkled up paper that allows buildings to be built all over the world. This paper plays a major part in all our lives in some type of way. “How do we handle money?” is the true question that we should ask ourselves. Some people think that if you have plenty of money, you have plenty of power. Others believe that if you have an enormous amount of money, you should bless others with it. There are just some people in this world who don’t let money affect them at all. Money is a desired thing in this world, but it can also make a person change. In The Great Gatsby money played a major

The poorer people in a society are all gathered in one part of a town while the wealthy are all together on another side. The amount of money you have sometimes define where you live at or how people may look at you. The Great Gatsby shows how their characters are separated in their city. There are two different places in the story that were called the East Egg and the West Egg. The East Egg was for your lavish and wealthy people, and they never had to worry about financial problems ever. On the other hand, the West Egg is for your people who didn’t have as much as others. “I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two...Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water” (The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1, 14-15) Money shouldn’t allow you to feel higher or lower than anybody

You can be affected positively or negatively by the way you handle money. Unfortunately, Mr. Gatsby was affected in a negative way. Mr. Gatsby was a very wealthy man, but he didn’t have people in his life to share it with. He wanted friends and a lover, but he didn’t know how to get them. He decided to buy people friendships and love because that was the only way he knew how to live. He hosted enormous parties to surround himself with different people. “There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” (The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3) At the end of the story, Gatsby regretted living his life this way because he noticed that he didn’t have anyone to be with him when he died, no one came to his funeral because everybody used him for what he had instead of actually becoming friends with him. Gatsby may have been successful money wise, but he wasn’t that successful in