The relationship between wealth and
happiness is that wealth can't bring happiness. Even you are wealthy but you
can't get everything you wish to have. Money can't buy everything.
On the first
passage the story "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the
author uses drama form and the third-person point of view to tell the story. In
the story, Jay Gatsby was a wealthy man who was totally falling in love with
Daisy. But Daisy married Tom Buchanan before Gatsby became rich and went to
war. Even after Gatsby became rich but he was unhappy because he used his
wealthy and devoted his time try to win Daisy back "He built his mansion
just the same as the one that Daisy used to live in." But at the end he didn't
get Daisy.
On the second
passage the poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard
Cory was described as a rich man even richer than a king. The author used
third-person point of view and direct characterization to described Richard
Cory's as the gentleman "He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean
favored, and imperially slim." In the poem, Richard Cory was the man that
every body wished to be in his place. Every body seems him as everything they
wished to be. Behind the Richard Cory's life, even he was rich but he was
unhappy. On one calm summer night, Richard Cory went home and put a bullet
through his head.
The both passages
share the same ending. The ending of the both passages was irony. In the story
and the Poem, Gatsby and Richard Cory were died at the end. In the story Gatsby
was killed by a poor man and in the poem Richard Cory killed himself.
As you can see the
relationship between wealth and happiness is that wealth can't bring happiness.
As matter of fact, the wealth brings people to the death road according to the
both passages. The authors used specific literary elements to support that
idea.