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…
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