Brendan KealyMr. ChesbroApril 18, 2014American LiteratureMore Money, More ProblemsIn all three of F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, The Great Gatsby, The Rich Boy, and The Offshore Pirate, money is a recurring theme. In The Great Gatsby, Jay uses his money to try to impress a girl. In The Rich Boy, Anson doesn't believe the rules apply to him because he is rich. In The Offshore Pirate, Ardita's yacht is taken over by pirates because of her family's money. In all three stories, money changed the characters' lives in a bad way because of how they thought money made them more powerful. The Great Gatsby is a story about Jay Gatsby. He was a very rich man, living in a mansion, throwing huge parties and driving a Rolls Royce. As the story progresses, you discover that Jay wasn't always rich. Before he was rich, Jay met a girl named Daisy. They fell in love with each other but Daisy didn't want to marry him because he wasn't rich. Jay leaves to serve in the war and when he returned, Daisy was married to a rich man. Gatsby decides to become rich to have Daisy. He becomes a smuggler and illegally becomes very rich. He buys Daisy a mansion across Long Island Sound. He thought she would leave her husband, Tom, because he was rich. Daisy stays with Tom because they have a child together and have been married for a few years. The Rich Boy is a short story about a man named Anson. Anson was born into money and always thought he was superior to everyone. He thought the rules didn't apply to him because he was rich. Even though he was in his twenties, he never matured enough to behave like an adult. He found the girl of his dreams, Paula, and she loved him. Anson was not mature enough to settle down and...... middle of paper......a. The Great Gatsby uses the themes of money and love by making Jay rich to gain Daisy's love. Jay Gatsby makes all his money because Daisy told him she wouldn't marry him because he wasn't rich. Jay drastically changed his life just to be with Daisy. He loved her so much that he even let her use him as a scapegoat for killing someone. He was murdered because Daisy let him take the blame. Daisy didn't even respect him enough to show up at his funeral. The similarities between The Great Gatsby and The Offshore Pirate lie in the lies they use with the people they love. Ardita is deceived by Toby and her uncle. She thought her yacht had been taken over by pirates. In truth, the pirate's captain was Toby by the name of Carlyle. Her uncle had wanted her to like him and not give the impression that he had forced her. This deception worked well for them both.