Money in Society

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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. People who inherit their money from their family and is passed down from generation to generation are known as “old money” and people who actually work and earn their riches are known as “new money”. Old money and new money people act different and the things that they do are very different. The people who have their money handed to them are more relaxed and carefree, but they do not tend to spend a lot of their money. Tom Buchanan is a character that shows the old money stereotype. “Tom and Daisy had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, then drifted here and there u...

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