Gatsby Informative
Informative Essay
Since the beginning of the 1900’s, society has aggrandized the lifestyle we as
Americans dream of living. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, he shows how far people are willing to go for that lifestyle. This classic novel proves Americans today are just as materialistic, irresponsible, and overindulgent as they were in the 1920’s.
In The Great Gatsby, being acquisitive is one of the most stressed upon flaws.
Many of the characters in this novel, such as Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby are plagued with the desire for earthly possessions, so much that they can’t open their eyes to see if the choices they had made were wrong or right.
Throughout the book, the whole approach to forming and maintaining relationships or friendships are based on the amount of money people give and get in return. In the world Fitzgerald has made, how wealthy you are is actually your value as a human being. Gatsby is convinced that the more money he makes, the better chance he has to buy Daisy Buchanan from Tom, her husband. The paradigm of Gatsby’s wealth are his grand parties, “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas Tree of
Gatsby’s enormous garden…the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond dreams of Castile,” (44). The parties’ purpose was to grab Daisy’s attention from across the bay, where she lived on East Egg. Gatsby believed if he flashed his money around enough,
Daisy would finally notice him. Another example of Gatsby’s need for extravagant, eyecatching commodities is his car. “[Nick had] seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supperboxes and toolboxes, and terraced
Since the beginning of the 1900’s, society has aggrandized the lifestyle we as
Americans dream of living. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, he shows how far people are willing to go for that lifestyle. This classic novel proves Americans today are just as materialistic, irresponsible, and overindulgent as they were in the 1920’s.
In The Great Gatsby, being acquisitive is one of the most stressed upon flaws.
Many of the characters in this novel, such as Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby are plagued with the desire for earthly possessions, so much that they can’t open their eyes to see if the choices they had made were wrong or right.
Throughout the book, the whole approach to forming and maintaining relationships or friendships are based on the amount of money people give and get in return. In the world Fitzgerald has made, how wealthy you are is actually your value as a human being. Gatsby is convinced that the more money he makes, the better chance he has to buy Daisy Buchanan from Tom, her husband. The paradigm of Gatsby’s wealth are his grand parties, “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas Tree of
Gatsby’s enormous garden…the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond dreams of Castile,” (44). The parties’ purpose was to grab Daisy’s attention from across the bay, where she lived on East Egg. Gatsby believed if he flashed his money around enough,
Daisy would finally notice him. Another example of Gatsby’s need for extravagant, eyecatching commodities is his car. “[Nick had] seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supperboxes and toolboxes, and terraced