Theme: The Rich are careless people.Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters continuously prove to show that the rich are careless people, or that they can afford to not care about others at all. The rich people in the book have a sense of being better than everybody else is, but not showing it exactly at face value. They are completely careless and throw caution to the wind. They ignore how others feel and also they don't care about anything that doesn't have to do with them, or something they like.The rich will hurt people, sometimes on accident, physically and mentally, that they think are of a lower class and don't care about those persons well being whatsoever. Some examples of this are Daisy hitting Myrtle wh ...view middle of the document...
When Tom visits Gatsby's house with his two friends, the woman with Tom asked if Gatsby would go with them to lunch, she was just trying to be polite. No one really wanted him around. Gatsby didn't realize this, the woman knew he didn't know and she didn't care. They just left Gatsby's house before he could get ready. The rich are just careless, they let things happen to them, and it really doesn't matter to them. Tom tells Wilson that it was Gatsby that was driving, he didn't make up something else to help Gatsby, most likely not just because it was to keep him away from his life, but because he knows that Wilson will kill Gatsby but doesn't care at all. When Jordan is driving and Nick is with her and he tells her she is a terrible driver, she says that it doesn't matter, as long as everyone else is a good driver, she assumes that she can just drive around and not care. Also at the beginning of the book, the girls are just sitting around doing nothing, without care. Daisy then says that she missed the longest day of the year last year and didn't want to do so again. On page 187, the narrator says "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their own money or their vast carelessness..." That is a statement of how careless Daisy and Tom are.The rich are careless people who don't care. They go around running over people without blinking, and think that because of their money they are better than everyone is. Characters continuously prove to show that the rich are careless people, or that they can afford to not care about others at all in F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
