From the beginning of the novel, money is an important goal for most of the characters, which in turn changes their outlook on life. Jay Gatsby, a misunderstood man with new money, wanted to win over Daisy Buchanan with his West Egg mansion and his fancy parties. When Nick is asked to ask Daisy to tea, he states that he is shocked that Gatsby did not ask sooner: “The modesty of the request shocked me. He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to the occasional moth, so he could “come” some afternoon to a stranger’s garden” (Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby is trying to adapt to Daisy's materialistic taste by showing off his exquisite mansion and his prized possessions: he took out a pile of shirts and began to throw them, one by one, in front of us, shirts of pure linen, thick silk and flannel valuable. , which as they fell lost their folds and covered the table in a multicolored mess. As we admired he brought more and the soft, rich pile rose higher: striped and scrolled shirts and plaids in coral and apple green and lavender and soft orange, with monograms of Indian blue. (Fitzgerald