Jay Gatsby’s social status and wealth were the main reasons he didn’t get to be with Daisy. When he finally did obtain it, he still could not win her over. Learning that there are something’s money can’t buy. Daisy eventually does start showing interest back into Gatsby, but it is only because of his Wealth. When she figures people look down on him and his wealth, she was no longer interested.
Every weekend Gatsby would throw parties in hope to get Daisy’s attention. At the parties there would be many people that wouldn’t be invited or that didn’t know Gatsby at all. All these people just used Gatsby for his parties and to feed off of his wealth. When Gatsby dies barely any people came Wolfsheim said “I cannot come down now as I am tied up in some very important business and cannot get mixed up in this thing right now.” his own business partner wouldn’t show up to his funeral showing the loss of morality in Wolfsheim. The owl eyed man in the library is shocked when he hears that no one showed up to Gatsby’s funeral and says “Why, my God!
Or, the rich have more money, they should help people who actually need it but they don’t because they are selfish, disgusting individuals who don’t care about anyone but themselves, therefore they are poor excuses of human beings. In either scenario the end result is the wealthy individual(s) being classified as less human. You can worship someone to the point when they are so far above you that there’s no way you can be equals because in your mind they are better than you. You can also be disgusted by someone to the point where their existence means nothing to you. Dehumanization works both ways in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, many saw Jay as
His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate were slipping precipitately from his control.”(p.119) Tom knows that Daisy only married him for his money and although she has developed feelings for him, he fears that if he leaves her for Myrtle she will turn to Gatsby. Tom may in fact feel threaten by how Gatsby has such an extravagant house and parties. Tom has been rich all his life and it isn’t until Gatsby shows up does he realize that he might lose Daisy. Because of this Tom tells Myrtle that he and Daisy cannot get a divorce because she is a Christian. It is evident that he is not happy being married to Daisy because he has an affair with Myrtle.
Jay Gatsby was a man who became trapped by his own dream and received in life what he deserved. Upon meeting Daisy, a beautiful women born rich they had an affair. Gatsby know he couldn’t live up to her expectations of the life style she was accustomed to for he lacked wealth. Gatsby became a man who inspired himself to achieve to be among the American rich society and win the love of Daisy. He was not
Myrtle is married to poor man, George Wilson, and lives in the valley of ashes. She doesn't have much since they struggle with business, and yearns for more. She's not satisfied or content with what she has which brought her to a rich guy like Tom. With the kind of money that he has, he's able to provide her with the kind of "love" that she's been wanting and waiting for, but Daisy seems to get in the way between them. Even though Tom is cheating on Daisy, he still has much love for her, which holds him back from giving all of his love to
He worked so hard at convincing himself that he could recreate the past that he actually believed it could happen in his own mind. He hated his life as a kid because of the fact that he wasn’t rich. To Gatsby, the reason Daisy never married him was because he wasn’t wealthy, like Tom was. This triggered Gatsby to have a life goal. This life goal was everything he worked for, his entire life revolved around doing anything he can to become rich, and once he was rich then he would once again capture Daisy’s love for him again and they would get married back in Louisville at Daisy’s old house.
Furthermore, they control the largest corporations and so they are “rich people who control far more than their personal wealth. They control the wealth of the nation…” (Zweig 132). Middle class are people with middle income to me. These people live for wage, but their life is pretty comfortable. Middle call members can be professionals, supervisors or small business owners.
The story starts off right away describing Madame Loisel beauty and charm but unfortunately she was born into the wrong class. She isn’t happy with the life that she has. She dreams of a life with parties and elegant dresses and jewels. Madame Loisel is so envious of a rich, old school friend who lives a different life that she actually refuses to go and visit because she feels worse about her life when she returns home. Her friend doesn’t appear to be proud of boastful in the story and doesn’t seem to care that Madame Loisel is poorer than her.
“Some say the root of all evil is money”. This is true for “Mathilde loisel”. She could love and care for her husband more, but she only sees what he can`t give to her. Mathilde can`t recognize what she has. Mathilde having a strong wish to be successful, but doesn`t want to work