Comparitive essay
Some people feel that money can buy happiness; others believe that it can't. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby chooses to use his money so that it will, in his point of view, buy him happiness. In similar fashion, in the novel The Gold Coast by Nelson Demille, Frank Bellarosa also thinks that money can bring about happiness. The two characters feel that money can buy happiness but they do not succeed in their conquests for happiness. Both characters, Jay Gatsby and Frank Bellarosa, think that happiness can be brought using money by buying certain things. In Jay's case, he does not want to be notoriously known. In the book, a couple of young ladies say that he once killed a man so Jay buys a house and invites people to frequent parties to show he is not so bad. Everyone knows that he is a bootlegger and that he sells and does things illegally. To show that he is not bad he invites people to frequent parties. In Frank's case, he also does not want to be disgracefully known. As soon as he moved to Long Island, everyone knew that he was the leader of the Italian mafia. Because of this view from people about him, he buys land to show to that he is not a bad guy. Frank also gives out
money to church. For example at his church Santa Lucia, his priest Father Chiaro asked Frank for fifty thousand dollars to fix the church, he gladly gave him the money because they knew that Frank already had the money. Jay and Frank take action to show there beliefs that money can buy happiness. In Jay's case, he uses his money gained from illegal business and racketeering to be accepted by the wealthy as a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and to be loved by Daisy. Jay buys a mansion to impress and make Daisy Buchanan fall in love with him. The mansion will give the wealthy an idea that Jay is wealthy and should be accepted. Jay also makes constant parties inviting East Eggers or the wealthy people who live in this part of New York. These parties are thrown to try to stir Daisy. In Frank's case, he uses his money to be accepted by the Gold Coast residents so he can be happy because everyone doesn't want to live close to a well known mafia don. Frank first uses his money to buy Alhambra and become an official resident of the Gold Coast. Then Frank uses his money to buy Fox Point and show that he is wealthy and should be looked at as a normal resident and not a mafia don. Frank also buys Stanhope Hall to reveal to the Gold Coast residen
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Approximate Word count = 842
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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