The Importance Of Clothing In The Great Gatsby

In the novels, The Great Gatsby and Ragged Dick, there’s many references about clothings that tells us readers the personality,traits, and classes of these characters that we see in the novels. In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby was one of the main characters as you can see from the title “The Great Gatsby”, and Gatsby shows the readers the importance of clothing and how clothing represents the class for each character. In the other novel, Ragged Dick is another main character which is the story title of himself. Ragged Dick worked as a shoe cleaner and one day, a customer asked him about his clothings and where he got it from, when Ragged Dick told the man where he got his clothes from, the man started to wonder if he could trust him because Ragged Dick didn’t have change but the man gave him the money anyways since Ragged already cleaned his shoes but the man still wanted Ragged to give him change and so he gave him his address to drop off the change.

First off, in The Great Gatsby, Mrs. Wilson or Myrtle, is a character who wants to be in the upper class and she attempts by ‘appearing’ like one. Before when it was Mrs. and Mr. Wilson’s

When I say “represents the owner” I’m talking about how clothing can show the personality and traits of that person wearing their clothes. Veblen believes that clothing constitutes to the economic theory and when a woman dresses, it sets forth the wealth of the household that she belongs in. What Veblen means about the economic theory, is that clothing fits into the economic section instead of political or social. When Veblen talks about how woman fits into the wealth of the household she belongs in, he’s talking about that any woman that lives with someone in a house, fits with the house holders quickly. In Veblen’s book, he quoted “the dress is the index