BTW

I don't really understand the student expectation that we teachers 'give' grades.  We make assignments that have requirements for their completion.  If you do the MINIMUM requirements, you PASS.  If you want to make an A, we teachers are assuming you will go above and beyond the MINIMUM to do something EXCELLENT that deserves a good grade.

Daisy Buchanan does NOT love money

Sure--her voice sounds "like money" and she is vain and overly materialistic, but Daisy Buchanan is NOT in love with money.  She's in love with Jay Gatsby.  He is her unattainable American Dream.  She can't have him--not because of money but because of his lack of social status.  Even when Gatsby obtains riches and wonders, he still lives in West Egg and throws tacky parties to demonstrate his new-found wealth.  Someone from East Egg would never need to demonstrate his wealth in such an ostentatious manner.  Someone from East Egg would have nothing to prove.  That's why Gatsby is unattainable for Daisy.  No matter how much money he acquires and no matter the means of its acquisition, Jay Gatsby will ALWAYS be James Gatz, a nobody from nowhere who fell in love with an ideal.