Essay On Social Class In The Great Gatsby

The neighbor, later revealed to be Gatsby, is of higher class than Nick, even though they live in the same region due to the size of his home, and his riches. The citizens of West Egg, like Nick and Gatsby, don’t come from wealthy families. Their “non-pedigree” status stops them from getting what they want. For example, Daisy gets tired of waiting for Gatsby to get back from war and acquire wealth, and she marries Tom, a very rich man with family history, instead. The residents of West Egg are stuck between the poverty they escaped and the status they want to achieve, this ... ... middle of paper ... ... marriage is falling apart because Myrtle wants more of a life than George has given her.

The book can be identified as a social narration of American life in the 1920s, that is, those who were wealthy, by establishing different social circles, old money versus new money, and no money. The Roaring Twenties was considered a period of immense change due to the shift in the classes and the upper class drifting into two separate groups of new money and old money. Those of new money were the newly rich who made their money in a variety of ways. They built the way up to their fortunes and did not inherit anything from anyone but. As for old money consists of blue blooded aristocrats who were born with family ties.

The American dream and how to obtain it has been altered in multiple ways throughout the decades. It is more difficult today than it was in the early twentieth century to achieve the American dream. This dream is the idea that any individual can rise up the class ladder from nothing. The fact that the rich population’s taxes stay low and that those same people stay wealthy contribute to the difficulty to obtain the dream. Many immigrants move to America in hopes of achieving the American dream.

He argued that the Industrial Revolution created a large group of wealthy individuals, Stone believed that self-made business men of the industrial revolution did not enter into the aristocracy. Spring believed that the wealthy businessmen did not want to be a part of the landed elite; only a small percentage of them thought that joining the ranks of England’s most prestigious club to be appealing. Many of them could possibly be deemed as having more influence than the landed elite had due to their great wealth and power. Spring was confused by the manner in which Stone seemed to ignore evidence that proves England had not fallen into the hopeless caste style society like he was claiming. Stone on the other hand believed that England had become a hierarchical society that was closed to anyone they did not deem fit to be a part of their exclusive club.

America itself had not been attacked and had not joined the war until 1917. Even though USA drew out of its po... ... middle of paper ... ...he tax policies. [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Consequences of the Boom: On analysing the consequences of the boom, it can be said that the advantages from the boom overruled the disadvantages. Advantages Disadvantages. - Economy increased US was isolated -US became the richest country in the world Migration caused population problems -Unemployment decreased Already existent wage problems increased -Majority of the population was benefited Moral discipline of the society decreased due to Sex and cinema.

After Standard Oil’s empire was washed away, America changed a lot financially and economically. More and more huge corporations began to fill the landscape, in which skilled labor of the past was being rapidly replaced by machines and unskilled labor. As more and more corporations started to hand out minimum wage, the owners of the companies kept getting richer and the workers earned barely enough to survive. As a result of this, the wealth of the middle-class stayed about the same, but the wealth of the upper-class grew exponentially. This kick started America’s Gilded Age in which industrialization grew rapidly, but the level of poverty rose because of lowered minimum wage.

It has three main quadrangles and educates around 221 postgraduates and 372 undergraduates (12% more men than women). Univ has a modern progressive outlook but chooses to uphold some of the more enjoyable ancient traditions, such as Formal Hall: an optional three course candle lit dinner, held six nights a week that boasts one of the cheapest price tags in Oxford. The ‘laidback’ approach is somewhat deceptive as Univ is regarded as academically strong and expects its students to be disciplined and able to attain their potential. There is a general library and a specialist law library that offer a choice of well over 60,000 books 24 hours a day. Women were first admitted in 1979.

Money determines many things and it has been that way for a very long time. It determines where one stands in society and the people one would typically associate with. Those people, more usually than not, have the same social status. Daisy Buchanan of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, loved a man of little money who turned into a “new money” man, but she came from an “old money” family. This novel, taking place in the 1920s, is a great example of how money shapes and plays a role in a persons life.

In the book, we see that although Mr. Rosedale is a very wealthy man, he is outside the social circle because he does not have old money. He has new money, which shows that he is not part of a great, rich family. The second step to climb up in the social scale is to use other people for one's benefit. For a woman to climb up in this society, Lily says one must marry not for love but for money. If one marries into a wealthy family, than her status is automatically heightened to that level.

Alli Craig AP Language Mr. Ruddy October 11, 2015 The Great Gatsby Synthesis Essay Nick Carraway the voice telling the story “The Great Gatsby” but the mastermind giving it purpose is the author Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald lived a lifestyle that was very similar to the one we see in Nick. He was also a very average man placed into a society of over the top lifestyles and extravagant wealth possibly reflecting how Fitzgerald felt as an average person in thriving time period being the 1920’s where people would do anything to pursue the American Dream. People especially the rich, primarily valued money over basic morals. Nick speaks for Fitzgerald and that’s the novels mission is an essentially straightforward criticism of the “American Dream.”