Wealth Can Breed Carelessness In The Great Gatsby

In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the theme of “Wealth can breed carelessness” using the literary devices and/or techniques of irony, flashback, and point of view. Throughout the story, Nick Carraway exposes the affluent main characters through their hideous actions and words. Whether to them it is virtuous or not, the result was completely repulsive. First of all, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the theme of “Wealth can breed carelessness” using irony. According to the text, when Jordan is driving with Nick, “‘They’ll keep out of my way,’ she insisted. ‘It takes two to make an accident.’ ‘Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.’ ‘I hope I never will,’ she answered. ‘I hate careless people. That’s why I like
This represents the theme because Tom was able to steal Daisy’s love with his wealth during the time she waited for Gatsby. Eventually, her memories with Gatsby would be forgotten proving her to be careless. Third, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the theme of “Wealth can breed carelessness” using point of view. In the text, Nick describes the truth about Tom and Daisy, “I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (191). Fitzgerald uses point of view to express the truth in Nick’s perspective, who elaborates that Tom and Daisy are indeed careless people for their biggest flaw, which is pride. This example depicts the theme due to Nick’s perspective because the most critical outcomes that were caused by Tom and Daisy was the deaths of Myrtle, Gatsby, and