Great Gatsby Response

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The message that I would like to bring up from the written text the Great Gatsby is to give chance to others to grow. The Great Gatsby is all about social class in our society. I am aiming at a teenage and adult audience as I feel that there should be an understanding for others and not pushing them back but helping them to grow in life. The text type is essay writing. I have used a passive voice, complex expression, setting, simile, and theme and didactic to make this writing understandable for others to know the message that I would like to put out there. The Great Gatsby is a novel by Fitzgerald, which is a meditation on the American Dream. The American Dream is an idea that anyone from anywhere, any class can do anything they want to, …show more content…

It represents new money, which we call middle class people, which may not have as much as power over others, but do have control over their own destiny through commerce or land ownership, this is one of the largest class groups in the United States – because it is more than just income, it is mostly about lifestyles and resources. For example, Gatsby, which did not grow up with money like Daisy. Therefore, he does not know how to use or handle his money or how to use his higher social sphere. Gatsby often looks out longingly over the bay toward Daisy’s house. The water that separates them physically is symbolic of the social distance between them. The author portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy and lacking in social graces and taste. It shows that the middle class people don't really think that money is that important in life. They have a purpose to live, such as Gatsby’s only purpose was to get Daisy back, unlike Daisy and Tom which didn’t have any purpose of living and lived each day as it …show more content…

Which represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure, a symbol of wasted life. The Valley of Ashes is where the poor and working class live and it also symbolizes the color “grey” of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result. The whole valley is grey and covered in dirt, grime and ashes, and the people are treated like the garbage of the upper class. Tom goes there to be with Myrtle, whom he uses for his pleasure. Entering the Valley of Ashes, he must drive by the eyes of Eckleburg on the billboard, which represents judgment and his feelings of guilt. The eyes of Eckleburg are judging all the upper class who passes through for having rejected the lower classes and treated them so poorly and no matter how hard they’ll try to improve in growing, they will always be looked down at it and this is because of the class they come from. Another thing we could see is that even though lower class people don’t have much property, nor stock in the business, and are those that rely on their wages, they do have one thing that upper class people don’t have which is love and care for each other. Tom and Daisy had everything they could ever want in life, but that one thing that they

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