Materialism Depicted in The Great Gatsby

the risk of breaking
             the law. He admits to Nick that he has "been in several things . . . I was
             in the drug business and then I was in the oil business" (92). He even
             offers Nick a piece of the pie by suggesting that he could "pick up a nice
             little bit of bit of money" working on the side in one of Gatsby's "rather
             confidential sort[s] of thing" (85). From these scenes we can determine
             that Gatsby did not care how he made his money as long as h
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