Examples Of Materialism In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is one of the most important pieces in American Literature due to it’s compelling American Dream theme, but the main point Fitzgerald trying portray is how American Dream is actually an illusion. He also portrays how American Dream is corrupted and wasteful,even if it’s an illusion. Jay Gatsby is living in wealth in a ridiculously big mansion. He is driven by an endless hunger for more and trying to achieve his “American Dream” who is Daisy Buchanan, shallow, wife of Tom Buchanan. Gatsby keeps his illusions until the end and living in his illusionary world. “Can’t repeat the past ?” Gatsby counters Tom’s statement,”Why of course you can !” (Fitzgerald 110).The characters in The Great Gatsby are striving for materialism and