nflicts in The Great Gatsby.
In general, the characters in the book are not content with what they have, and expend great emotion and suffer great anxiety trying to get more -- more love, more wealth, more understanding. This discontent is the same discontent that worshipping money is said to cause in the Middle East. If one believes that happiness is a direct result of wealth, then it would follow that more happiness would result from more wealth. If this concept is philosophically pleasing, then a new dimension in understanding the characters in The Great Gatsby is possible.
First, we must accept the concept that worshipping wealth does exist. Second, we must accept the concept that those who worship wealth will not achieve what they want, since they always want more. Third, we must accept the theory that an antagonist does not have to be a person, but can also be a philosophy or a belief system. If these three concepts are accepted, then we can argue that the false God of Money is the primary antagonist in this
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