The Research of Literary Criticism ( Materialism in The Great Gatsby Novel by Fitzgerald )

The material as the life’s necessities of human changes into prestige of the human himself. Material is no longer interpreted as the life’s necessities but it changes into money. It becomes the symbol of success and happiness. This shift process certainly brings a lot of change to the human nature. Material which at the beginning is considered as the life necessities turns into human obsession to reach the happiness. In the literary criticism, materialism is one of approach to analyze the values in the literary works. Its used by Fitzgerald to view the complexity of the story in the ‘Great Gatsby’ Novel, but unfortunately the fact, its ironic because material satisfaction is only empty happiness as reflected in this paper.


Introduction
The Great Gatsby is a story of the saddened love between a man and a woman.In the matter of fact, the

Discussion
So far, I understood that there are some kinds of approach in literary Criticism.Personally, I'm not able to describe all things related with this Above, I told that, this approach will be materialism approach.This is taken just to compare the theory with the story on it.After I read all the contents of this novel, then I believe that this approach is the proper one to analyze "The Great Gatsby" novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.Before I go to the analysis, it needs to describe all things related with this approach.

Literature and Sociology
Sociology derives from the Greek 'Socius' (society) and 'logos' (science) which means the study of all aspects of human and their relation in community (Ratha, 2003:1)  In the novel The Great Gatsby, some characters will do anything to

Conclusion
Human needs always develop time to time.At the beginning, human uses material to survive in life.By an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching greed, arrogant, empty pursuit of pleasure and even ignore to other human.The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties and wild jazz music, epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the opulent parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night, it, the American dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness.In the 1920s depicted in the novel, however, easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream, especially on the East Coast.The main plotline of the novel reflects this assessment, as Gatsby's dream of loving Daisy is ruined by the difference in their respective social statuses, his resorting to crime to make enough money to impress her, and the rampant materialism that characterizes her lifestyle.Thus, This novel portrays materialism in such away which will be discussed in this paper.
Every individual has to work very hard to fulfill their needs and get better living.It is nature of human being to do it, which is why human often called as an economic creature.The goal of economic efforts is the satisfaction of human needs.Everyone requires a minimum of food, clothing and housing as the basic needs of human to survive.Those life's necessitiesshould be got by all people.The production of life's necessities should be enough to all people and the distribution of it should be spread averagely.That is Karl Marx tried to emphasize.The time is changing and so do the human's needs.In the beginning, they just need food, clothes and shelter from the weathers.But by the development of human civilization, they need a lot of needs for their life such as variety flavor of food, lavish house, sophisticated vehicles to ride, or most fashionable clothes to wear.And to get those things, human need to have a lot of money to buy that.Based on those matters, many people try to get better life to fulfill their needs.The material as the life's necessities of human changes into prestige of the human himself.Material is no longer interpreted as the life's necessities but it changes into money.It becomes the symbol of success and happiness.This shift process certainly brings a lot of change to the human nature.Material which at the beginning is considered as the life necessities turns into human obsession to reach the happiness.Modern people started to think money has such a powerful function.With money people do not only get anything they want but also they can also do everything they want to do, Even money involves a human status.Money is a magic power which control human and creates the essential social status (Ratha, 2003:27).It means Wacana have material oriented in their life, they will start to lose their humanity because they only care about material matters.An idea that if someone gets material success, they will live happy and can get everything they want since they can buy anything.But it is not everybody can have material success to get better living.Moral values appear in the society as the direction to create the well ordered of harmony living.Even though some moral values in a society may be different from other but the purpose of it is just the same.People who live in the society should follow it to unity of regularity.It is a direction that leads human into a better person, a dignity as a human being.When human hold on the moral values, they will be a good person with strong moral values as the rule to control the life.In the other hand since human has material oriented in their mind, they will do anything to get it include breaking the rule of moral values.A fake satisfaction which human gets from material leads them to do anything or sacrifice everything in order to get it.They start not care about moral values as a real human should have.Material oriented only bring human into the dark side of them.But material oriented will bring moral consequence in the same way.
do anything to get the material success even they have to do things against moral values a human being.It is obviously material possession brings dark side of human itself.It is ironic because material satisfaction is only empty happiness.Love and happiness still can not be bought even how much money people spent.Human thinks if they have material success, it will give them honor, popularity, achievement and respect from others so they can get happiness.But in the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes some characters who has already had material success but still suffered because they live without love, instead ofmaterial surrounding.They live in such a fake glamorous world which has everything but in reality they have nothing in their life.