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to make the reader understand that a character like Gatsby needs a certain environment to exist. Although Gatsby’s persona is surrounded by different rumors, and “contemporary legends such as the ‘underground pipe-line to Canada’ attached themselves to his name,” people come to his parties. Money can buy one popularity and friends, at least temporarily. Most likely many of Gatsby’s “friends” knew where the money came from, yet it did not seem to be a good enough reason for them to stop socializing with him. Money can also buy tolerance for breaking the law. In order for Gatsby to be able to have his lavish parties where “in the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten” (44), he had to have the entire police department on the payroll. The 1920s were the years of Prohibition – the sale and purchase of alcohol was forbidden in the United ...

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mouth, she makes her living by playing golf. It would be fair to say that money is important to Jordan, since her life revolves in circles where one’s social standing is determined by his wealth. It is also evident from Jordan’s own story (79-83) that even when she was young, she admired that wealthy society and wanted to be a part of it. She understood that Daisy’s popularity was not based solely on her good looks, but rather on what her family’s money made her to be: a beautiful rich girl. However, to be a part of that society one has to sacrifice certain things – moral values and feelings. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald shows the reader that Jordan Baker ...

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