Great Gatsby Case

Greed

Wealth along with greed go hand in hand with the problems that come from money are recurring themes in many stories, including The Great Gatsby. This book rotates around the relationships that develop because of money. The impact that money has on a good majority of the characters and their behavior towards each other. In The Great Gatsby, people have big houses, nice cars and a prosperous lifestyle. At first money is the entry to a great life, great parties, along with a world of extravagance. Then in the end, it brings everyone down. Money creates more problems than it is worth.

In the beginning Daisy loved Jay Gatsby as he loved her. But soon Daisy tells Jay that he doesn't have enough money for her. So he spent years and years making money becoming a bootlegger. He truly believed that money would buy her love. Daisy told him that "rich girls don't marry poor boys." Jay wants her so bad that he uses many ways to get money that were not legal. The irony is he chooses a life of immoral and illegal behavior to get a girl, when all in all in the end he never gets. He just looses everything, including his life.

Money is something everyone wants to have but no one really wants to work for it. Daisy is married to Tom, but before this she was in love with Gatsby. Gatsby uses money as a tool to get Daisy back with his big house all of his expensive things and it seemed to work. To Daisy and Tom money means a lot because it makes them feel superior to those who have less. In this book many people think that money makes the world go round that money is the only thing that is important. But there is one person in this character list that didn't want to use Gatsby for his money but to be his friend, Nick Daisy's cousin. He helped him out of friendship not for his money.