In the preface to Major Barbara, the playwright George Bernard Shaw observes that "money is the most important thing in the world: it represents health, strength", honor, generosity and beauty,” but, the poet continues, “it also destroys people as surely as it strengthens and ennobles others” (Shaw 28). Shaw recognized that many people look to money, the ultimate representation of materialism, in search of the power that allows them to live. Money can play many roles in the drama of life. It can represent or give the illusion of wealth, prestige, nobility and power its ability to destroy and corrupt. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the repeated image of money, regardless of the form or through whom it is represented, is used to such an extent that it becomes central to the development of the story. The abstract idea of ​​money can be expressed in many ways. Perhaps the easiest way is through the acquisition of large estates. In the first chapter of the novel, Nick, the first-...