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Examples Of How Society Shaped Back In The 1920s

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In the passage the text reaches to give examples on how society was shaped back in the 1920s. The author S. Fittzgealrd uses Tom Bucanon to express the views and concerns of the white population at the time. The text Tom Bucanon refers to or mirrors nazi speech. Showing how in the 1920s the german text had been translated into everyday white society norms and culture. Tom says their books casually refers to and almost encourages building up white power in order to keep minorities down. This is the type of ideology spread through the 1920s to white people all over America growing a false ego. The idea that power was being taken away made white people grow angry at minorities which is shown later in Nick's spiteful comments. Multiple examples …show more content…

I don’t think Nick himself is inherently racist, but the people he was hanging around, taught him certain mannerisms that would definitely be considered so. Originally surprised by Tom’s aggression on the subject. Nick later makes remarks towards minorities that Tom Buchanan would agree with; these aren’t Nick‘s original thoughts they were learned from the environment he was around, even if he wasn’t in it long term echoed hate speech that influences others emotions and mindset around him which is exactly what 1920s white supremacy was meant to …show more content…

There also isn’t a lot of color representation in the book in the first place so the fact that the only light that is shined on there is usually negative shows where Fitzgerald‘s mindset for writing was a point of dealing with white privilege is being made throughout the story by every class and category. Some characters even include relatively unimportant ones like Jordan for example show moments of white privilege. Example being when Nick presents the information of Gatsby’s passing, and she remains almost in a difference between someone who he thought was her friend’s passing. This you could say was one of Nick's mini revelations on how superficial in truly phony Gatsby’s friends were, and how that social class started to come into

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