Role Of Society In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby Plot: Nick Carraway, a young lad from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a small house almost like a shed in the West Egg district of Long Island. This is when he sees and starts to hear about his extravagant neighbour, Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a very secret and mysterious man, who throws huge and over the top parties all the time. A little later Nick decides to pay his cousin a visit.

For example, one is more likely to trust a wealthy business man rather than a poor business man, because he simply wields more power and has the means to fulfill desires and control one’s behavior. In today’s society, many symbols of social stratification includes buying and wearing what is trending. IPhones are extremely popular in American culture, and it is a symbol of stratification. People are seen to have a lot of brand names and designer clothing which separates them from the lower class. The stars on the star-bellied sneetches were the symbol of stratification in the story.

Jay Gatsby, in the novel, The Great Gatsby, firmly believes that people should “Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it,” (173). Gatsby would practice manners, how to speak and how to walk like a wealthy man. He went from being poor to having money, which is what he thought success was and he thought he needed to change who he was and act a certain way. If he looked rich he thought people would like him. That is how he thought he would get Daisy.

First, Daisy and Nick join Gatsby at Gatsby’s house next door where her and Gatsby get some time to recollect themselves, “He hadn 't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs,” (pg.112). First, in this part of the book is when Gatsby’s attitude throughout the rest of the story completely changes; therefore, the whole world seems to disappear causing him to fall for Daisy. Then, he doesn’t even compensate the rest of his house and how glorious it is due to Daisy taking over his whole entire attention span; this almost caused him to fall down his own stairs.

The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald 's greatest novel--a book that offers damning and insightful views of the American nouveau riche in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is an American classic and a wonderfully evocative work. The novel 's events are filtered through the consciousness of its narrator, Nick Carraway, a young Yale graduate, who is both a part of and separate from the world he describes. Upon moving to New York, he rents a house next door to the mansion of an eccentric millionaire (Jay Gatsby).

In the story “The Upside of Income Inequality”, Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy effectively express’s the importance and need for income inequality in our society. Furthermore, Holly Ellyatt’s newspaper article Income Inequality: Is It Good For Everyone? serves to also point out that economic success and greater productivity is linked to “income inequality”. Although it may seem extremely unfair for someone to make up to two hundred and fifty times as much money as someone else, this notion of “income inequality” actually benefits the society as a whole by encouraging others to work much harder in life and better themselves and their education.

Maybe the faith of Gatsby is the microcosm to that of everyone, and love is a fantasy. Nevertheless, albeit reality pricks our lives, we will never give up the utopian world in our heart. F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story by first person narrative forms and reminiscence of Nick Carraway. He is not only an attendant, but also a bystander. As the attendant, he is the neighbor of Gatsby, the distant cousin of Daisy, and the old acquaintance of Tom; he associates with Jordan, attends luxury party of Gatsby, and helps Gatsby and Daisy contact again; he witnesses the rivals between Gatsby and Tom, knows about the truth of traffic accident of Myrtle, and handles Gatsby’s affairs in the end.

For example, both productions have a beginning scene depicting a porch gathering between Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband Tom Buchanan. “Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch…” (Fitzgerald, 1925, p. 11). One difference in the plot is the first party scene at Jay Gatsby’s house. “For a moment he looked at me as if he failed to understand.

Gatsby lies to public and tries his best to earn money, even through illegal way. The Great Gatsby is a typical novel about the American dream. And a lot of people think the combination of Gatsby and Nick is the author. The story is from the experiences of the author’s life, so it reflects American society in 20th century very well. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the American dream has been the driving force of development of American society and has lead people to work hard and be successful，but it goes downhill with the bigger and bigger gap between rich and poor.

The split of these two groups provoke the characters to show off and make the point of having pride in being wealthy which relates heavily to common American society. Source E author explains the habit of Americans when all of a sudden the unaffordable becomes affordable even with no money, “Thus did Americans begin to spend money they didn’t yet have …” (Source E). While evaluating the extent to which this theme relates to common world, many people can see that corruption dealing with money is a huge

The phrase “The American Dream” was first invented by the historian James Truslow. He said: ‘’the American dream was a land in which life should be better, and richer, and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. ‘’ And the dream has been change from the pursuit of principle to a pursuit of middle –class lifestyle. This can be because the high class has taken advantage of the working class. When they could be helping a lot of people with their opportunities, they just simply think of themselves, and don’t give they just take whatever they want without thinking there could be any consequences.

"The Great Gatsby" is an outstanding piece of classic American literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald discusses the issues on-post-war society, the American dream, love, and wealth. This draws attention to the readers that question if Jay Gatsby is "Great". Despite the uselessness of his beginnings, Gatsby is great due to the intensity of his will. Although, Gatsby is a person whose false love, materialism, and egotism led him to the tragic end.

The Great Gatsby was a fantastic novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the roaring 1920’s as well as presents to the reader the subtle changes towards materialism seen in this era. These changes as seen with the many complex characters present in this novel are displayed to us in an efficient manner, being put it into almost every scene with little hints towards the corruption of the American Dream. Fitzgerald depicts the corruption from excessive wealth in extravagant lifestyles and demonstrates how this causes relationships to be based off of the monetary aspects of life in order to emphasize the immorality in the respective era. Corruption is constantly seen throughout this novel. From Gatsby’s rise to wealth, to his journey for love, to

The Great Gatsby shows Fitzgerald’s view and portrayal of the effect of money on people’s lives. Fitzgerald implies that being wealthy can lead to many great things but that money is everything but happiness and even with Gatsby’s wealth and imaginative mind, he still can not satisfy the image of Daisy since she nor any other women could ever be the girl who he desires. (Durkin). Gatsby wishes that his wealth would bring him the happiness and satisfaction he desires but instead brings him to his deathbed.

In chapter one, Nick Carraway says, “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (Fitzgerald 1). Here, Nick is trying to explain to Gatsby how the upper class rarely seems to realize the problems that the lower classes face. Due to Jay Gatsby’s higher standing within society, he rarely seems to fully comprehend the atrocities of the lower class. Gatsby bases his so-called ‘superiority’ on his money, rather than his actions.