Ms. Fordahl
English 10
February 18, 2014
2. Money can't buy you love (or friends).
In both the book and movie of The Great Gatsby, one of the life lessons displayed really spoke to me. The lesson was that money cannot buy you love or friends. The story was that this guy named Gatsby was a bootlegger to obtain his great fortune. He used his money to buy a big house to impress his young love. He hosted big parties at his house to get her to come, but in the end he never got the girl or made any friends from hosting these parties.
I think this life lesson is very true. Gatsby tried to win the heart of this girl by buying this big house right across the bay and tried to get her to come to one of his parties. Parties with people he didn't even know! When he did impress her, he had to hide the fact that he got rich off of illegally selling alcohol, and when she learned of it she was mad at him. Then he ended up dying without her love and no friends.
I can sort of relate to this lesson because I have learned and seen this happen before. I've seen many rich kids before and I know a lot about their lives. They think the can buy their way into friendships but the friends use them for their money (which means they aren't really your friends at all). I've also seen that sometimes this rich person doesn't really have a good social personality so they are in a way socially awkward. They try to make friends by showing off but their money is talking instead of them. The same thing applies for love. This women that this rich guy loves maybe only loves him for his fortune and really could have a relationship with someone else or she learns he doesn't really have an as great personality as she thought and dump him.
So that's what life lesson really spoke to me in The Great Gatsby.
I can sort of relate to this lesson because I have learned and seen this happen before. I've seen many rich kids before and I know a lot about their lives. They think the can buy their way into friendships but the friends use them for their money (which means they aren't really your friends at all). I've also seen that sometimes this rich person doesn't really have a good social personality so they are in a way socially awkward. They try to make friends by showing off but their money is talking instead of them. The same thing applies for love. This women that this rich guy loves maybe only loves him for his fortune and really could have a relationship with someone else or she learns he doesn't really have an as great personality as she thought and dump him.
So that's what life lesson really spoke to me in The Great Gatsby.
