Discuss why the theme of "Money can't buy happiness" in The Great Gatsbymakes it a great piece of American fiction. Please answer in detail and with...

It is not thethat makes a great work ofbut the way the theme is handled. Anyone could
write a work with the message that money cannot buy happiness. Onlycan show the squalid, empty
lives of the rich in such a way as to make us feel it and draw the conclusion for
ourselves.

is about unhappy people. Some of them are
rich, likeand the Buchanans. Some are not, like the Wilsons.is not rich but hopes to become rich
in the bond business. Nick seems to think at the beginning of the book that he will find joy in
making money. He describes his bond books as golden treasure:

I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood
on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining
secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.

There is poetry in money so far as Nick is concerned. He still feels it when talking
toand talking of her to Gatsby. They agree...