Economic Power In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The story The Great Gatsby is told from the perspective of a man named Nick Carraway. In the story Nick follows the glamorous life of a man named Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is a rich man that is in love with Nick's cousine a woman named Daisy Buchanan. Over the course of the story we learn many things about Gatby from bad to good. We learn that Gastbys main reason for getting rich is to get a woman by the name of Dasiy Buchanan. Daisy is Nick's second cousin and married to a man nammed Tom Buchanan. Over the course of the story Garsby gets closer to Daisy causing Tom Buchanan to get jealous. This soon causes a huge fight between Tom, Daisy and Gatsby. When they are driving home after the fight Daisy hits and kills a woman named Myrtle Wilson with Gatsbys

The story represents this pillar by showing the difference between the rich and the poor. The example I have for this is when it describes where George lives in the story. The story describes the area where George lives as “a dirty, grungy looking area completely covered in ashes and soot from the top of the chimneys''. This helps to show economic power because it represents the difference between the rich and poor showing that the rich benefit from the factories while the poor are negatively affected by the riches factories. That is how the story shows economic

This pillar states that capitalism means unavoidable class conflict. This is shown in the story The Great Gastby when Gerorge Wilson discovers that Myrtle Wilson has been cheating on him with Tom Buchanan This is shown in the story when it saids “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick.”. That is an example of the third pillar in The Great Gasby. The fourth pillar in the Maxist theroy is art, literature and idologeys. This pillar states that art and literature were vehicles for the bourgeoisie to force the proletariat into compliance and complacency. This is shown in the story The Great Gastby when Jay Gasby buys a bunch of stuff because he has the money and not because he needs it or as the story saids “I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.”. This helps prove my point because Jordan Baker is at a party hosted by Jay Gasby. That is an example of the fourth pillar in The Great