How Does Gatsby Become Rich And Make Their Way To The Upper Class

Many lower-class individuals believe their problems will be solved if they become rich and make their way to the upper class. F. Scott Fitzgerald challenges this statement in his perfectly crafted tale: The Great Gatsby. The novel was set in the 1920’s, also known as the Jazz Age, when Americans were listening to the same music, there were more people living in cities than farms, and consumers were spending more money than ever. Fitzgerald depicts a man named Jay Gatsby, who grows up as a farm boy and later becomes rich and successful. Wealth can improve problems such as paying the bills and buying nice clothes, however it will not bring total happiness. Gatsby is affected when he was in the lower class because he loses the love of his life,

Gatsby purchases a mansion across from Daisy, in hopes she will notice him. Living in the upper class society gave Gatsby a bad reputation, for the reason that he only became affluent to impress Daisy and did not bond with other people. Every Saturday night Gatsby hosts parties at his home. During his parties he does not associate with anyone, some of the people who go to his house every weekend do not even know the color of his hair or sound of his voice. Even though the rumors were all lies, Gatsby lets the people say what they want, and hardly ever makes the attempt to meet his guests. Fitzgerald explains, “As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements” (Fitzgerald 43). Gatsby only cares about connecting with the people who he knows can help them out. He begins his friendship with his neighbor Nick because it is to Gatsby’s knowledge that Nick and Daisy are cousins, and asks Nick to invite her for tea at his house. Fitzgerald writes, “The modesty of the demand shook me. He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths─ so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden” (Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby uses Nick as a tool to bring Daisy to his house, which astonishes Nick because Gatsby waited 5 years to perform such a simple but, also ridiculous task. He does not care about making close friends, and therefore he does not associate with very many people, he only talks to people to see if they know Daisy Buchanan. He had no close friends and very few loved ones. Only two people attends his wedding after he was shot by a man named Wilson. At his gatherings, rumors about him float around the rooms, bouncing from one group of