In "The Great Gatsby", James Gatz abandons his whole life to become Jay Gatsby. He chases wealth and materialistic desires trying to fulfill himself. Even after chasing money for so long, believing it to be all powerful, he still can't get everything he wants. Daisy, the woman he loved so much, still left him alone. Even when he thought he had Daisy, her holding his arm by his side, he still felt a bit empty. The fantasies of which he desired he never achieved, they were beyond reality. No amount of money could give him what he wanted. He could never buy himself happiness, Daisy's heart, or the past.
I don't play a concert violin; I play a student violin. It's not an expensive student violin either, rather it's a used one, nothing special. Despite this fact, I can still play pretty well. My experience, skill, and hard work is what makes me able to play violin. Handing a Stradivarius to a beginner will not turn them into a concert soloist. There are things in this world that money simply cannot buy. No matter how much you spend on a violin, it can never substitute the time spent practicing. A better violin, although it may sound better, will not make me a better violinist. No matter how expensive the instrument, it cannot change the experience of the player. There are things in this world that money simply cannot buy.
Yo Rameen, you cooked with this blog. I love how you say that better Violin wouldn't make you a better Violinist. A lot of people say money can buy you happiness, which indeed might be true; however, what money can buy is Skills, charecter, and knowledge. Gatsby geniuenly though he can rizz up daisy with all that good stuff, which did seem to work until Myrtle happened, and Gatsby took the fall of her death and then Geroge Wilson pulled up and crushed his dream by popping him.
ReplyDeleteI like how you connected the motto “money can’t buy everything” to the Great Gatsby as it makes us reflect on whether Gatsby’s chase for money and status is even worth it. I also think it’s pretty impressive how your able to connect your own personal experience of playing the violin to multiple aspects of literature in each of your posts.
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