Analysis Of The Wolf Of Wall Street

According to a report by ZenithOptimedia, people spend more than an average of 490 minutes of their day consuming some form of media or text (Karaian). In a society that’s driven primarily by the media, we as consumers have been constantly exposed, yet desensitized, to the various perspectives and theoretical frameworks that media has historically illustrated and produced. The most common concepts that are explored involve ideas of race, heteronormativity, whiteness and white privilege, female objectification, class identity, and gender. Each perception is complex and is seen differently in media depending on who you are and the way that you see the world through the lenses created by your own beliefs and culture.

Jordan’s whole character is a product of his economic and social class. From the start of the film, Jordan is introduced as an overly ambitious person who can’t get enough of Wall Street. After the stock market crash of 1987, which left many stockbrokers unemployed, Jordan accumulates wealth by defrauding people with cheap penny stocks. Jordan represents the corrupted American dream, and the middle class is whom he preys on. Though corrupt and often illegal, people will still chase after the American dream at all costs. For instance, when Jordan is first exposed of his wrongdoings in Forbes, he doesn’t lose business, instead, hundreds of money-hungry ivy league graduates try to come work for him. Likewise, when Jordan meets his future business partner and co-founder Donnie Azoff, played by Jonah Hill, he promises to quit his minimum salary job if Jordan shows him a paystub of how much he makes. In an article published by Andrew DeYoung, Jordan is depicted as an addict, which represents most of the upper class, too. “If Wolf has anything to say about the way we live now, it is precisely that our economy has become a form of addiction,” he says. “He describes his first day selling stocks as a kind of high; it’s also a form of drug dealing, selling the addictive capitalist dream of transforming one’s rags into untold riches