The Great Gatsby is set in the glittering, glittering world of wealth and glamor of the 1920s American Jazz Age. However, the story of the poor boy who tried to achieve the American dream of living a richer and fuller life ends with Gatsby's death. One of the reasons for the tragedy is the corrupting influence of greed on Gatsby. As soon as Gatsby begins to see money as a means to make his fantasy of winning Daisy's love a reality, his dream turns into illusion. However, other characters in the novel are also affected by greed. Upon closer examination one finds that almost every individual in the novel is craving something that others have. In this view, the meaning of greed in the novel can be varied. Greed is universally seen as the desire for material things. However, in recent studies, the definition of “greed” has come to include sexual greed and greed as idolatry, understood as fascination with a deity or a certain image (Rosner 2007, p. 7). The expanded definition of greed provides a valuable framework for research on The Great Gatsby because the objects of characters' desires can be material, such as money and possessions, or less tangible, such as love or relationships. The concept of greed, which was previously centered on consumption, is now associated with material accumulation and seen as a self-conscious material vice (Robertson 2001, p. 76). Further analysis identifies different types of greed for money and possessions: greed as service and obedience to wealth, greed as love and devotion to wealth, greed as trust in wealth (Rosner 2007, p. 11). The characters in The Great Gatsby portray all of the types of greed mentioned above. For example, at the beginning of the story Gatsby realizes “youth and sh…middle of the paper…but if he could go back to a certain starting point and slowly go back over it, he could find” (Fitzerald 118). Having devoted many years to this dream, the character fails to recognize that his only motivation was greed, so his dream never comes true. The Great Gatsby shows readers that people can be greedy for almost anything: material possessions, love, relationships, energy. , time, memories. What distinguishes greed from other desires is not the object or thing the person wants to acquire. It is the intensity of desire and the part of the thing or object that a person craves that defines greed. The characters in the novel wanted to have absolute power and control over money, material possessions, other people, and their feelings. The characters fail to recognize that the true reason for many of their actions is greed and this leads to their moral corruption.