The Key To Greatness (Great Gatsby)
Happiness is the key to life. Money is the key to happiness, or is it love? Many people have different opinions on what happiness is. Maybe this is because happiness is many different things for many different people, but in the end it all comes down to what the person loves. Some people spend their whole lives trying to succeed in the business world only to gain vast sums of money an die rich and unhappy. Why are these people wasting away their time only to gain material belongings and not love? In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, mistress, marriage, and true love were the different kinds of love that existed. Tom Buchanan was married to a woman named Daisy, but had a mistress who lived in the Valley of Ashes. The mistress's name was Myrtle Wilson. She would wear a tight, brown dress to give the impression that she were rich. Myrtle was not happy with where she was at. She was married to a dirty, greasy mechanic named George Wilson. Myrtle would use Tom to get into the upper-class. Tom in return would go out and show off his girl. "Tom's got some woman in New York. . . She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time. Don't you think?"(Fitzgerald 16)
In conclusion, mistress, marriage, and true love are all very common in The Great Gatsby as well as in our world today. Gatsby never considered himself to be great because he never could obtain the love of his life. Even though everyone thought of Gatsby as being great, he was not great because he was never happy. Happiness equals love, and love is more powerful than money and popularity. People cannot live happily without love. George Horace Lorimer once said, "It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good too, to check once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy." Although Daisy was married to Tom, she had a love from many years before with Jay Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy shared something very magical, but Gatsby was sent off to war and by the time he got back, Daisy had found a new love with Tom. Yet Gatsby will never forget his love with Daisy. Gatsby became great in wealth and popularity, but despite this greatness, he struggled to gain the same greatness in his love life. Gatsby could never receive the love he wanted from the one he truly loved. Daisy is his long, lost love. The reason Gatsby made himself so successful in the financial and social world was in the hope of gaining the love he once had with Daisy. He only wanted Daisy. He did not seem to care if Daisy loved him for the real Jay Gatsby he was or f
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Approximate Word count = 937
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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