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Environmental Aspects Of Life In The Great Gatsby

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This story entails the life of Nick Carraway and his experience together with Gatsby. Starting with Nick’s arrival to New York, his life on Long Island while working on Wall Street and ending with him leaving that life behind after Gatsby’s untimely demise. While there are many interesting aspects to this story this analysis will focus both on the social and the environmental aspects of life on Long Island during the 1920s. The author 's life and how it affects the content of the book. Firstly we take a look at the physical environment. The story takes place in the 1920s on Long Island which is one of the main hubs for extreme upper class. Many whom just have made their fortune moves there due to the extreme amount of prestige it entails. While Nick owns a nice house next to the beach it’s dwarfed by the castle like mansions that surrounds it. Cross the water lives his cousin with her filthy rich husband. This is extremely close to what New York looked like during the 1920s. Long Island was and still is a place for the extreme upper class. The events unfolded in pre-depression Wall Street where people who had a starting capital could multiply their wealth 10-fold and the future looked brighter than ever before and ever sense. As mentioned earlier Long Island is a rich mans area, were the inhabitants generally have had a far higher education then the rest of the population. Such education is only something that those with great wealth can afford. While they had a much
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