Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby addresses the inequality of income distribution and class differences in 1920s America. This article aims to describe the graphic illustration of this situation, which is also referred to as “the Great Gatsby Curve”. This curve demonstrates that countries with higher unequal income distribution are more likely to have lower levels of social mobility, which means that in those countries it is challenging for people from low income families to increase their social mobility and to improve their economic status in the society. While the article excludes explaining other countries’ place in the curve, the article’s correlation between family income and social mobility is mostly valid since it demonstrates the hardships for low income families to economically grow when income inequality levels are high.
The Great Gatsby Curve is valid because
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The curve shows that countries with fair income distribution such as Denmark, Finland, and Sweden have more people with high social mobility levels, regardless of their income. Again, those countries have an equal income distribution. On the other hand, countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States have a high income inequality and lower economic mobility, which indicates that parental income is an important factor for people to expand their mobility. For instance, countries Denmark, Finland and Sweden have a sharpened education, as well as numerous opportunities for people from different classes of society. Therefore, this education and opportunities support children to improve their economic status when they grow up. Although the article doesn’t give much detailed information about how different countries are at the different spots in the Great Gatsby curve, which is indeed one of the main points of the