The listed price was 300 kilograms of solid gold; however, since Captain Jack Sparrow Inc. is anxious to sell its used ships, and since Davey Jones is a very persuasive negotiator, the parties agree to a selling price of 175 kilograms of solid gold. A week later, after the hurricane season had ended, Davey Jones put the ship in the water to see how it sailed. After sailing for ten kilometres, the ship begins to take in excessive amounts of water. As the ship begins to sink, Davey Jones’ crew aboard the Flying Dutchmen arrive just in time to tow Davey Jones and his newly purchased ship ashore and they dock it at Captain Jack Sparrow Inc.’s docking port. What are Davey Jones’ rights under the common law?
In the novel “The Great Gatsby” there are two major money groups, new money, and old money. Jay Gatsby is an example of new money because he worked for his money. He buys a mansion an west egg to get back his lover from the past, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy lives right across the bay in east egg and is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom and Daisy are both old money because they were both born in to wealth.
To do this, he needs to become wealthy to suit her East Egg lifestyle. Most people assume that Gatsby was into shady business because a lot of “the newly rich are just big bootleggers” (Gatsby 107). With his new fortune, Gatsby buys a mansion on the water “so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Gatsby 78). When Gatsby and Daisy are reunited for the first time in five years, Gatsby is ecstatic. Gatsby dreams that he will “fix everything to the way it was before” (Gatsby 110).
In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, we meet a wealthy mysterious man named Gatsby. Through the eyes of his friend, Nick Carraway, we witness how Gatsby struggles with these ideals for the woman he loves, which in the end fails to gain, because his high expectations
Myrtle started acting like a rich person just because of a material object. This is materialistic because Myrtle acts rich just because of a dress. Myrtle shows her materialistic qualities when she says “It’s just a crazy old thing; I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.”(pg31) This leads to Myrtle thinking of George in a materialistic manner in the next example. Because George didn’t have enough money to buy a fancy new suit for his wedding day he borrowed one from someone. When Myrtle finds out about this she gets mad at George.
Tom was a born into wealth and so was Daisy, she married him because her name is more important then love. The difference in wealth between Gatsby and Tom made Daisy choose whom she wanted to end up for the rest of her life. “Girls only love men with money.” This quote is true for this book because when Gatsby gets wealthy Daisy starts to fall back for him. There was this one scene where Gatsby throws all of his shirts in the air as if he doesn’t care about these expensive shirts. Daisy grabs all of the shirts and starts to cry because she loves wealth and expensive cloths.
Jack is a poor man and Rose is a rich woman who is set to marry a man named Cal who is also rich by force. Jack sees that Rose is not happy with Cal and he tries to free her and the two end up falling inlove after he saves her from wanting to jump off the back of the Titanic. Rose's mother, Ruth, doesn't approve of the two (Jack and Rose) being together, mainly for 2 reasons, 1- Jack is poor, and 2- Cal is set to marry Rose so that they will stay rich. Well, the two try their best to break away from Ruth and Cal, however, the Titanic hits an iceburgh and ends up sinking. Jack has been falsely accused of stealing a very expensive diamond necklace and is handcuffed to a pipe in the bottom of the ship.
On a dark and stormy night, Able, age 13 and Bonnie, age 15, discussed how great it would be if they had some money to spend on their weekend trip to the beach. They consulted Clyde, age 21, knowing that he was very sneaky and knowing he would easily come up with a plan for money. The three agreed that they would go to the home of their neighbor (Nelly hereafter), take a $2000 vase from the living room, and sell it for $750, leaving them each with $250 dollars. All agreed that Clyde would get the vase. Clyde immediately walked to the neighbor’s front door and opened the window.
Jeanette Lowery Part Two Mid-Term The Great Gatsby is a novel about love and obsession with wealth and power. This story begins in the 1920’s, where the American dream is being corrupted by the society of “have to haves” and the wealthy. We meet Daisy a flirtatious woman coming from money. Who has a hard decision to make? Live with Tom her husband who is a crude, cold-hearted, and power hungry man or run away with Jay Gatsby her former lover who has done everything in life to win her back.
The story of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, shows how Gatsby became a wealthy and a great man after he was poor. He was a non wealthy person but after he met Daisy and fell for her love, he had a dream to be wealthy and to marry her. She was a motivation for him to become a great man, and also the reason for his fall. Love, a word of four letters has changed Gatsby’s life and behavior. It made him a non-ordinary person to the people that knew him.