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OriginalAlma Shin
Mr. Pangier A2 Literature Apr. 21, 2015 Wealth Is a Belief. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book filled with discontented characters, always looking for more. If one doesn’t believe and feel they are wealthy they never will be, and in the Great Gatsby, Nick Caraway is the only one contented, whilst the others only want more. Nick Caraway, the books main character is a man born into wealth, who moves into the same neighborhood as Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin Daisy, and her husband Tom Buchanan. All four of them are wealthy, yet only Nick is content. Throughout the book you never hear a sense of wanting from him, rather a passive observance of other’s discontent. Jay Gatsby wants Daisy because his money isn’t enough, Daisy is unhappy because “the best thing a girl can be in this world, [is] a beautiful little fool”, Tom Buchanan was “one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax”(Fitzgerald 23, 14). The reason why they never were wealthy even though they had so much was because they didn’t feel it. Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner Trade Paperback ed. New York: Scribner, 2004. Print. |
revisedShawn Raines
Mr. Pangier A1 Literature May 24, 2015 Wealth Is a Belief. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book filled with discontented characters, always looking for more. In what we see, as a horde of social conflicts with power grabs by two sides over the girl of fantasies, the rotten core of an apple decays overtime and just like that the cavities of the avarice will modulate the grounds for removal. If one doesn’t believe and feel they are wealthy they never will be, as Alma a HIS Student has once said in an essay regarding this. But in close retrospective in my personal experience you are only worth as much as you spend and in the Great Gatsby, Nick Caraway is the only one contented with his worth, whilst the others only want more. Nick Caraway, the main character of a book is a man who has a drive for wealth, who moves into the same neighborhood as Jay Gatsby in pursuit of his own career as a stockist and across the bay from his cousin Daisy, and her husband Tom Buchanan. All four of them are wealthy to an extent, yet only Nick is content. Throughout the book you never hear a sense of desire, a wanting from him other than that of the knowledge to know more about Gatsby and his love affair with his cousin. Also his neighbor’s extravagant finances to afford the large parties he has been hosting. Rather a passive observance of other’s discontent from our Nick Carraway our other protagonist Jay Gatsby, who wants Daisy because his money isn’t enough, however, built his empire on the necessity to find and attract Daisy for courting. The Great Gatsby shows this impunity in wealth, the satisfaction in ignorance that Daisy herself describes in this one short phrase “the best thing a girl can be in this world, is a beautiful little fool”, Tom Buchanan was “one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax”(Fitzgerald 23, 14). Jay Gatsby is the one that has shown impunity, with the law but even more so with shady characters, good relations and even revelations of strong powerful people while also showing large involvment around the drug traffiking rings of New York to Chicago as always mentioned through the phone. What these characters obtained, not all will agree to as an accurate depiction of wealth, but by definition it is, the method of attaining should never determine the end result and the money accumulated alone is enough . Its what differs from character to character and controls the overall story in terms of mood and tempo. These characters all had different intentions of how to use money, saving for riches or throwing pompous parties all with a more deeper layer of ambition for their actions. To not correlate with how rich they feel but in how discontented they were, Tom Buchanan had money and wife yet cheated, Daisy clarified she was not happy with the amount of money and social status she held. Jay Gatsby formulated a diabolical plan to reach Daisy and his love interest in itself ended up controlling him, making it into a desire and furthermore a thirst never to be quenched.. Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner Trade Paperback ed. New York: Scribner, 2004. Print. |
