Examples Of Wealth In The Great Gatsby

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The Wealth of Jay Gatsby In “The Great Gatsby”, money is what usually determines the class of an individual in society today. The wealthy, high class, middle class, and poor working class are all separated by money. The rich get to do basically anything; living lavishly and enjoy life partying while everyone below them have to work harder and struggle more. Through the use of money, Fitzgerald shows how money corrupts people throughout the book. He shows this through the characters Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, Meyer Wolfsheim, and Jordan Baker.
It is obvious that Gatsby is ridiculously rich. He hosts grand parties, overflowing with buffets of food and alcohol. Gatsby provides these parties for the rich, high class every weekend. People from everywhere came, mostly uninvited. That’s how large-scaled parties he hosted. The way he got that money, however, isn’t as pretty as his parties sound. How he got to this point of wealth was dirty, and it was dirty because he was so obsessed with becoming wealthy. He got his money through criminal activities. Tom pointed this out
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Since he’s rich, he feels like he could do whatever he wants. Tom is also rich, just like Gatsby. Although Tom isn’t as rich as Gatsby, he still has plenty to go around. At one point of the book, a woman named Myrtle Wilson wanted a dog because she thought it was cute. Tom said, “Here’s your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it”. This just shows that Tom has enough money floating around him, so he gives Myrtle more than enough money for her to use. He buys his way through situations too. After the death of Gatsby, Tom wanted to take Daisy away. With the amount of wealth Tom has, he could afford to take himself and Daisy to go somewhere whenever he wants. Nick tried looking for them but Daisy and Tom left, “and taken baggage with them”. If Tom could do this with his money, he could buy his way out of almost any problem he comes