The Great Gatsby The world is full of cheapskates, impostors and two-faced people. Many use others to their advantage. In The Great Gatsby, through the motif of superficiality, Fitzgerald criticizes the theme that displaying materialism and superficiality can ruin true love and the possibility of true love. Objects cannot define a relationship; it should be the feelings developed that define the relationship between two people. The characteristic of materialism is a barrier to true love between two people. Nick Carraway has just moved to West Egg and his mysterious neighbor is Jay Gatsby. Gatsby's long-time dream is to rekindle his love and relationship with Daisy Buchanan, who is currently married to Tom Buchanan. He attempts to pursue his relationship with Daisy through his unexplained wealth. However, their love could not be true due to their focus on "things" rather than each other. Gatsby tries to make Daisy love him through his money and excessive spending on non-essentials. When he and Daisy rekindle their relationship, he takes her to his house to show off the clothes in his closet: “He took out a pile of shirts and began to throw them, one by one, in front of us, shirts of pure linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost its creases as it fell and covered the table in a multicolored mess. As we admired he brought more and the soft, rich pile rose higher: striped shirts and swirls and plaids in coral and apple green and lavender and soft orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a forced sound, Daisy bowed her head into her shirts and began to cry her eyes out. (Fitzgerald 92).” Gatsby throws his shirts everywhere to show that he has a huge amount of money... middle of paper... this motif of love is explored because it shows how people in this world use others for their money .Ne The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows that a materialistic mindset will corrupt the possibility of true love. Gatsby tried to get Daisy to love him again by showing off his money and failed because he didn't put his heart and himself into their relationship. Myrtle mistakenly married a man she thought was rich and it turned out he was poor. She quickly attempted to escape their marriage, but then had an affair with Tom Buchanan, a well-known wealthy man. Fitzgerald demonstrates how none of these relationships worked due to the materialistic ways of these characters. Finally, this theme is explored because it shows how true love is not real with false values. True love should be two people who love each other unconditionally and is not based on money oriented things.