Fitzgerald's view of the rich - "Her voice is full of money"

Chapter Seven is an excellent source to dive into the way wealth is depicted The Great Gatsby - specifically how Daisy is a representation of money. The scene opens with Jordan and Daisy lounging due to the immense heat of the summer. "The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool. Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans" ( 115). This screams of Veblem's idea of the idle wealth. The women can do nothing but sit around, Daisy ignores her child, she ignores her husband, all due to a heat wave. THe chapter continues to exaggarate Daisy as a figure of wealth. She is obnoxious and frivilous with her actions. At one point, in front of Jordan, she pulls Gatsby to her level and kisses him. Does she have no sense of deceny? Her husband is in the next room! This is an expression of the true moral decay that happens within the upper levels of society. She has no emotional connection to Tom, but ultimately she chooses to be with him for the social stability.

My favorite part of this chapter though is when Fitzgerald describes Daisy has having a "voice full of money". The comment is so fitting for Daisy's character because she embodies wealth entirely. She is a beautiful, young Southern debutant that plays the role of wife - a shallow, selfish one for that matter. Nick reflects on her character, "That was it. I'd never understood it before. It was full of money - that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it... High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl..." Nick is such a marvelous character because he contrasts intensely with the society he surrounds himself with. He is able to break down the fragile shell that the Buchanan create to perform their outlandish lifestyle. It is true that he gets carried away at points, but for the majority of the novel he serves as a level headed narrator.

Overall, Chapter Seven is a really interesting representation of wealth that captures the idle rich well. They deliberate over going into town for the majority of the chapter, which only culminates with Myrtle's murder.