The Last Dance
America is the land of strict social classes. In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby needed to show off wealth in order to obtain his goal-- Daisy. Gatsby “bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (78). He threw magnificent parties with hundreds of people because he “half expected her to wander in” (79). Everything Gatbsy does, he does for Daisy. He wanted her to “wander” in, lured by the mansion because that would be the only way for them to be together. Gatsby knows that Daisy will not leave her husband for someone with less money than him. Daisy “married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars” (75). Daisy married Tom for what he represented, wealth and power in the 1920s. She knew she would be sec