In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the theme of money plays a major role throughout the novel. During the story, the rich, primarily Tom and Daisy, have a sense of carelessness to them “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy­they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people pick up the mess they had made.”
(Fitzgerald 187­188). Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom all believe money can buy their happiness. The most obvious example of this is the lavish parties Gatsby throws every weekend at his home,
“There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. (Fitzgerald 43). These parties are all just to catch the attention of Daisy and make her love him. In fact, Gatsby feels that if he were rich does would surely marry him, he also feels
Daisy only married Tom because of his wealth “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.” (Fitzgerald 137). All the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby are focused and consumed with greed, with the exception of Nick. He is able to see the truth behind everyone's motives in the novel. The perfect example for this is
Myrtle, the only thing that attracted her to Tom was his money. She loves Tom for things Tom can give her in life that her