In the Great Gatsby, the book is set about irony and love. In the book, Jay Gatsby is a very rich person who made his money the easy way. In the book it tells that he made hi money through inheritance from a person he worked for that passed away, through drug deals and in the oil business. It goes along with the poem "Richard Cory" because to me it hints that he made his …showed first 75 words of 474 total…

…showed last 75 words of 474 total…higher on a scale then they should have been placed. They both felt the emptiness and aloneness that every person experiences once in their lives. People seem to think that money amounts to your worth, and in either pieces it says in so many words or less that if that person was poor and on the streets everyone would pass them by, instead of them being rich and being the person doing the passing by..