Answer:
Yes he does. Money only matters to Gatsby because he thinks it will help him win Daisy back. An easy one-liner about money not buying happiness doesn't apply to Gatsby. Daisy will bring happiness to Gatsby, nothing else
Explanation:
audience and message!
the message behind a story is the overall importance, and the audience is well, how the author gains.
They would look in the index for mentions of the subject.
I haven't read the outsiders in like 2 years but I do remember Pony boy and his friend (I forgot sorry) were wanted for murder so they ran away and hid in an abandoned church for a while but that's only one of the major problems I remember from the book