Does Money Matter?

Money, Money, Money. 

A lot of Money.

Stacks on top of Stacks.

What to do with it if it's even worth it.

There is so much money in the world. Everybody wants it. Don't you? Well, before you set out your venture, think about it. Does extreme wealth matter at all? Or is it just a waste of time? 

Money is the force that drives the world. Nothing can be done without it. In order to survive, you need a good amount of income. But how good is actually good? If we look at it, more money is more good. The more money you have, the better the life you can live. But there could be some drawbacks. If you read Great Gatsby, you might be familiar with some of them. 

One apparent drawback is lack of personal time. One of the main characters, Jay Gatsby, is shown to be a very busy man with almost no personal time. When Gatsby was having a party in his house and talking with Nick (the main character), "Chicago was calling him on wire." Even when Gatsby was having a party, his work kept him busy. But, can we really say that wealth took away his personal time. As hinted in the novel, his connection with people like Wolfsheim (who fixed the 1919 World Series) kept him busy. When looking at all the details and thinking about it, money might cause some lack of personal time, but that might not always be true. There could be some other factors that make a person busy.

Another theme shown in the novel is that money can make a person careless about anything. Even when someone dies. When talking about Tom and Daisy at the end of the novel, says that they were "careless people...[and] smashed up things and creatures and retreated back to their money." So.., Tom and Daisy who are wealthy characters in the novel are just careless. They smash up "creatures," who are Wilsons and Gatsby in the novel. So basically, they smash up creatures by indirectly taking away their lives and they don't even care. What kind of people are they? Fitzgerald does make a point that wealth makes people careless.

So should you care to look at Fitzgerald's claim about the world? It depends. It is not really accurate because Fitzgerald makes him claim about 4-5 characters, that to those are imaginary. If he really did some research about real life scenarios, his claim might be valid. Anyways, his novel is also from the 1920s so it is hard to say if his claim is still valid about modern society. Well, but it really depends on you how to think about his work and if money really matters.