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Dichotomism Of The Bourgeois In The Great Gatsby

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In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald stridently dichotomizes the luxurious and haughty lifestyle of the bourgeois, to the paltry conditions of the proletariat. Indeed, the narrator begins by describing the paradoxical gap between the two societies; despite bearing minimal differences in contour, the East and West Egg contradict almost completely in nature. While Fitzgerald depicts the privileged denizens of the East Egg to revel in refined and lavish mansions, he contrastingly exaggerates the destitution of the West Egg rabble living arduously in a “valley of ashes.” Disapproval of the rich’s supercilious attitude seems to permeate throughout the novel’s framework (unequivocally through various artfully placed innuendos), and
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