Jealousy

Jealousy is an emotion that is created by the lack of security. Jealousy is also known as the green-eyed monster and you can see it in people. Many people become jealous of others because they have something better than them. Everybody has a sense of jealousy in The Great Gatsby there are all types of jealousy. There is jealousy of people having more money than others and the jealousy of people being married to others.

One of the first jealousies seen in the novel is the jealousy between Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanans. Jay is jealous of Tom because he is married to Daisy, the woman that he has loved for a very long time. The jealousy it is also reverse Tom is jealous of Gatsby. Tom is jealous because Gatsby is more rich and knows more famous people than Tom. Tom tries to put Gatsby down by saying he makes his money by bootlegging and he says that the people they met aren't really that famous.

The jealousy is also show show between Myrtle and Daisy. Mrytle is very jealous of Daisy because she is married to Tom and she is the reason they can not be together. She is also jealous of her because she has nice clothes and gets anything she wants. The last jealousy in this book is the jealousy of Gatsby by Klipspringer. Klipspringer is jealous of Gatsby's huge house and large amount of money. He takes advantage of Gatsby but still does not posses the things that Gatsby has.