For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

As people, we do not realize what kinds of sorrows we bring upon ourselves. All the want, the greed, the needs, add together to make our lives miserable. There is a shortage of non-materialistic people in the world today because we have grown up with the idea that the more we possess the higher up in society we rank. Booker T. Washington said, “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” It is the society in which we grew up in that causes such things to seem ludicrous to many. This mindset was started in the Roaring Twenties right after World War I, with people buying on margin and going further into debt just to obtain the latest technologies. Proof of this materialist thought comes from the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is plagued everyday for five years by the memory that he was unable to marry the woman of his dreams. His go

“With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden. The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass a thick red circle in the water” (170).

‘This is Klipspringer.’ I was relieved too for that seemed to promise another friend at Gatsby’s grave…‘What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if it’d be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You see they’re tennis shoes and I’m sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B.F. – ’ (177).

Gatsby “friends” didn’t care for him, being the rich people they were, they only cared for their own possessions. Even in his time of need, the reason for Gatsby’s dream, Daisy, had left him to die alone. “I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them” (172). Daisy had abandoned Gatsby, skipping town with Tom, never to see Gatsby again. In the end there was no one there for him. “Look here, old sport, you’ve got to get somebody for me. You’ve got to try hard. I can’t go through this alone” (173). Gatsby was to die alone with his dream unfulfilled, without love.

It was sad to see a man so immersed in his dreams to end up in such a horrible way. There was nothing that Gatsby could do to free himself, he had fused his dream and his reality together to form an imaginary world in which he lived. The dream that Gatsby had was to love Daisy and to do that he required vast amounts of money and material wealth. In his pursuit of Daisy he became tied to the love of money, living a lavish life, carefree. In the end it was this love for Daisy, this love for money, and his dream that identified him, bringing him out into the open for the kill. It is not a sin to have money, for money is not the root of all evil; rather it is the love and need caused by money that is the greatest sin.

The main character in the book, Jay Gatsby, was affluent, but it was all part of a dream, a dream that never expires, a dream that stayed with Gatsby till his dying day. Gatsby’s dream was not to become rich but to marry Daisy. Gatsby always thought of Daisy as the one thing in his life that he worked for. Everything that he accomplished, was so that he could love Daisy. “He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes”(Fitzgerald 96-97). Gatsby had collected his wealth just to impress Daisy in hopes of winning her back. This is all that Gatsby can think about; nothing else matters to him except Daisy. When Gatsby allows Daisy to take his car on the wild ride that killed Myrtle, he was prepared to defend his dream. Gatsby’s love for Daisy can actually be considered an obsession. Daisy consumes all of his thoughts and causes him to become lost. “He spoke as if Daisy’s reaction was the only thing that mattered” (151). Daisy was like a virus that utterly and completely consumed Gatsby. He notes every little detail about Daisy, even the little green light on at the end of her dock. At night Gatsby would step outside his house and perform a ritual, “he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock”(25-26). Gatsby’s love for Daisy borders on the dangerous side as he records every minute since the day that they met, counting the days that they have been apart. During the long time that they

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