t, to me, means a lot of shirts. At one point in the novel, Nick says that hewas about to ask to see the rubies. Now, I don’t know if he was serious or not, but , just for thesake of argument, let’s say he was being serious. Why, exactly, does Gatsby have rubies in hishouse? Gatsby has two motorboats. Why does one person need two motorboats? He also has ahydroplane, which he apparently flies just for the pleasure that it brings him. The hydroplanecould only be used for pleasure. If he needs to go to the grocery store, for example, I’m prettysure that he’s not going to fly his plane over and land in the handy water strip convenientlylocated right outside!Also, the extravagant use of money by all of the upper class people in this book strikesme as being unnecessary. Daisy buys a dog for no reason other than that she thinks it’s cute. She doesn’t think of what she’ll do with it when she gets home, just that she wanted it when shesaw it, so she bought it. Gatsby’s car is another example of unneeded money being spent on aluxury- in this case a Rolls Royce. Sure- it’s a nice car, but does he really need it?In the end, Gatsby’s lifestyle left him with next to nothing. When he died, only his father, Nick,some servants, the postman, and the man with the owl-eyed glasses came to his funeral. It goesto show you that living only for pleasure is not the best kind of life to lead....
