Money And Social Status In The Great Gatsby

Nick came from a wealthy family but Gatsby came from a poor family but they both work for their money. Gatsby is spending a lot of money on parties for people he even doesn’t even know, just to find his love of his life Daisy. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald develops the two related themes of Money and Social Status/Class and American Dream.

In the Great Gatsby money can buy you Rolls-Royces, dresses, and really nice shirts, but in the end it can’t buy you happiness. “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer night.”“On weeks-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning and long past midnight.” (39) Gatsby is throwing expensive parts to find Daisy again and to
“Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly. That was it, I’d never understood before. It was full of money--that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it….High in a white place the king’s daughter, the golden girl….”(120) Daisy’s voice promises money, and American Dream, it’s really hard to argue that Daisy the high in white palace the king’s daughter, golden girl. “The Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries onto-day.”(3) Nick’s grandfather’s brother came to the United States to start a new life, Nick’s grandfather open a hardware to earn money by doing hard work. Earning money is by earning the hard way by doing
“Here, deares’. “She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. “Take ‘em down-stairs and give ‘em back to whoever they belong to. Tell ‘em all Daisy’s change’ her mine. Say: ‘Daisy’s change’ her mine!” (Fitzgerald 76) Daisy knows that the expensive string of pearls that tom gave her is a chain. When Daisy was drunk she said things on her mind like she wants to change her mind and marry the man she truly love. She wanted to marry Gatsby but at the time Gatsby had no money, but Daisy mother want her to get marry because Gatsby wasn’t rich. That is why she got married to Tom because he was rich. “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such-such beautiful shirts before.” (Fitzgerald 96) When Tom invites Daisy into his big house, and when Daisy so Gatsby closet and his shirts she started to cry because his shirts were very pretty. Daisy regrets marrying tom but she is happy to see and be with