Part 1 of Essay
In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzerald. Materialism plays a major role for one’s life in this novel. Jay Gastsby a very wealthy man lives a life of materialism just to prove to people that he is wealthy and important. Doing so he tries to impress a sertain lady by the name of Daisy Buchanan. Materialism plays ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... or his other materialistic friends. Gatsby also brags and over exaggerates when a person asks him where he got his education from and his money. From this he gives a person a length full excuse just to impress who ever it is. Here is an example of Gatsby over talking a subject. “I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west--- all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It ‘s been a family tradition”(pg.69). After ....