The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“After
two years, I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day. .
.” (Fitzgerald, 163). Gatsby and Wilson had just died. Nick Carraway was in
charge of planning Gatsby’s funeral and it seems that he can only get his
father, a couple of servants, and himself to go. This seems to apply to the theme
that money cannot buy happiness. Gatsby seemed happy on the outside. He had
plenty of money. He had an amazing car. His house was huge. Everyone wanted to
be at his parties. However, Gatsby was not really happy. The one love of his
life was with Tom Buchannan. He knew
that they loved each other but they really could not be together. The one thing
that Gatsby really wanted was the one thing he could not obtain through money:
Daisy. Before he died, it appeared that Daisy was going to run off with Gatsby,
but it did not happen. When he died, we see that his money remained. His estate
remained intact. We observe that our material possessions cannot go with us
when we die. All Gatsby’s money could not even prevent his death either.
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