During the roaring twenties, individuals were faced with the crossroads of choice with the decision to choose between being responsible with money and allowing the wealth to overpower the mind. In the novel The Great Gatsby the higher class characters experience their younger years misusing their wealth, without taking into consideration the lives of others from the lower class. This leads to those characters revealing their true demeanour and views of how to live life, just for the rationale that it is the prosperous days and they will only be using what they have inherited, passed down from generations of their family before them. In the novel The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the privileged characters in the novel to prove that the wealthy misuse their power of money over others. Therefore, one should consider the consequences of wealth. This is proven through the perspectives of Marxists, which Tom, Gatsby and Nick present, as a result of their wealth overpowering their choices and judgement of others. Firstly, in The Great Gatsby Tom’s wealth was not earned but given and by looking into Tom’s character, his conscience and morals guided him to take his wealth for granted and to take advantage of others. The rich decide to take a suite at the Plaza Hotel, where Tom asks Gatsby about his past and intentions for Daisy, revealing their history and that Gatsby received his large inheritance through illegal. Gatsby decides to reveal that Daisy is leaving Tom for him but Tom contradicts him by saying, “’She’s not leaving me!’ Tom’s words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby. ‘Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger’ – ‘I won’t stand this!’ cried Daisy. ‘Oh, please let’s get out’ (Fitzgerald, 133). Tom exposed Daisy’s true emotions towards both her husband and secret lover. He knows that Daisy would never leave for she will always be loyal to her husband and their “beautiful little fool” of a daughter. Tom’s wealth and power is overcrowding his judgement and forcing his true self to come out. He fully displays it, hoping that the people understand that the corruption is money and it will always consume him over other emotions and might ruin his reputation. Further along in the novel, Tom is publicized as the submissive character that believes everything and everyone can be bought, using money as the key for manipulation. Therefore, through the continuation of the explanation of Tom’s moral fibre, he views as being, Among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven – a national figure in a way ... His family were enormously wealthy – even in college his freedom with money was a matter of reproach – but now he’d left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away; for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that (Fitzgerald, 6). Tom’s need for a rich and high class reputation displays his yearning for a lifestyle and reveals that for Tom experiencing life without money would lead to the probability of there being no marriage with Daisy and having all these possessions that make Tom himself, disappear. From the beginning of his life, Tom never considered what an overall waste of money his belongings were, in addition he decided to transfer all his expensive trinkets to the Eas