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Examples Of Middle Class In The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald uses Nick as a good example of a middle class compared with Gatsby. Nick also known as the (person telling the story) has a house that is carefully thought about/believed an "eye sore" which means that Nick's house needs more improvement. It is also known as an over looked house because it is a regualar home that need a little bit of fixing or home improvement. Nick only pays $80 per month for his house but still lives the rich (way of living) like Gatsby. Nick is a type of person that is an (usual/ commonly and regular/ healthy) person should look during the "American Dream" which Is ok to be in a middle class. West Egg is the new, lucky rich people that just started their life as being rich; however, East Egg is rich people that inherit money from (their family members who lived very long ago). East egg is where The Buchanan (Daisy and Tom) live. Daisy and Tom are both selfish and over-done and (rude, insulting, and offensive) who are in the upper …show more content…

Scott Fitzgerald uses more speaking style and unnecessary tone for "The Valley of the Ashes". "The Valley of the Ashes" is a (class of people who work hard and don't make a lot of money) which is also known as the lower class of Gatsby. The author uses the words and (putting pictures into your mind) of "The Valley of the Ashes" is displayed as "grey" which represents slow movement, falling apart, or boring. Fitzgerald uses the words the "terrible", "Wild", and "unknown" to illustrate how bad and unnecessary the whole city acts. The author uses an (not interested, because of seeing or doing too much of something) tone for "The Valley of the Ashes" George and Myrtle Wilson live where it is all "pourdery", "in the air", "ash-grey men" live in the (class of people who work hard and don't make a lot of money) community. The author's (putting pictures into your mind) illustrates on the comparison at the "East/West-Egg" to "Valley of the Ashes". He does this by displaying the East/West Eggs as a rich

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Affluenza in The Great Gatsby Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald characters consistently show signs of Affluenza. Their wealth generates injurious, unpleasant effects on their cognitive and social health such as a sense of entitlement, irresponsibility and failure to acknowledge consequences. Tom and Daisy present signs that one with Affluenza would present. On account of Tom being accustomed to an upscale life, his consideration of the events that follow his actions have disintegrated. Tom handles situations differently than someone who does not have his money to fall back on would.

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From the quote, “This is a Valley of Ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight” (23), it can be seen how the Valley of Ashes is a depressing place. It represents the moral and social decay that results from the continued search of wealth and acceptance in society. Seen by how the rich provide themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the forcefulness of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.

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Amelia Cieslik Ms. Phelps English III May 26th, 2023 Wealth vs. Love In Chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby, Daisy’s lack of responsibility and characterized as reckless and carefree to foreshadow the lack of responsibility and self control the characters have in this novel. In Chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby, Daisy's carelessness and stupidity eventually leads to the death of Myrtle Wilson. She lets Gatsby take the blame for her unintentional manslaughter, after saying he would reveal to Nick that Daisy was the one driving the vehicle, declaring that “She ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car”(Fitzgerald 143).

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Beginning with one of the most recurring symbols in the text, the Valley of Ashes shows a stark contrast of poverty and dull lifestyles compared to the lavish and posh lives in East and West Egg. The Valley of Ashes is like the ghost to a failed American Dream. Instead of a beautiful landscape, the setting is made up of dark and depressing figures: “ashes take the forms of houses. . . men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. . .

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“I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. [...] Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water” (14-15). -In Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s highly regarded novel, The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan gets caught between a love for her first love, Jay Gatsby, and her current husband, Tom Buchanan.

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East Egg symbolizes the classy, upscale, always-had-money type of families. The Buchanan’s are an example of this, they

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It is described as a flat, grey place, with people who are just the same (Fitzgerald, 23). As a passageway into the city, it’s as if it represents the beginning stages of the american dream, those who start with nothing and desperately want a way to leave. Yet, the people who live in The Valley of Ashes are stuck there, forgotten and left behind by the rise of the idealization of the American Dream, showing the real impossibility of reaching it. George Wilson and his wife, Myrtle Wilson’s character is based around the idea that they live in the bleak area. Similar to the dreams they had once fantasized about, their marriage had dwindled and died in the Valley of Ashes.

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Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism to convey themes and to influence the plot of The Great Gatsby through the Billboard, the East and West Egg, and the green light. One of the symbols that Scott Fitzgerald uses is the green light that is at the end of Daisy's Buchanan dock in the East Egg that can be seen from Gatsby's mansion in the West Egg. The green light holds different meanings. One and the most important takeaways is the light represents his love for Daisy that he can never reach. The main reason that Gatsby bought his mansion there is his ability to see Daisy's home from across the bay.

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A Classless Society: Determining Standards through Character The 1920s were a time of excitement and economic growth for the young and bustling American nation. Although the country was progressing as a whole, a class system was very prevalent and separated the country. Fitzgerald comments on the American class system through his description and actions of the characters and their traits.

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Jay Gatsby is one of the major characters, he symbolizes the American dream; as he started small and became the Great Gatsby whose parties and wealth are a part of everyday gossip in East Egg. At first "his parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all" (The Great Gatsby 105). As for the Buchanans; Daisy was a spoiled rich girl who left Gatsby, at the end, for a more stable life with her husband and his money. " 'her voice is full of money ', he said suddenly" (The Great Gatsby 128), here Gatsby states that she is extremely wealthy that her voice was full of money, and throughout the novel, Fitzgerald praises her movements, her sweetness and tenderness.

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Nick gives a description, “This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens… of ash-grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” This description gives a hopeless feeling and it helps picture a strange unhealthy place. The valley of ashes is a big ground of emptiness where the poor live, living under that condition must make these people feel hopeless and

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It also serves to portray the materialistic society that surrounds them (The Colors of Society - Camouflaged Discontent).” The characters portray such class and wealth along with fake happiness. The Valley of Ashes looks at how they feel on the inside which Daisy and Gatsby both ooze with discontent with how they’ve made decisions and how their lives did not turn out how they dreamed. Next, at one of Gatsby’s many house parties Nick makes a list of “grey names, and they will give you a better impression than [Nick’s] generalities (Fitzgerald 61).”

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Tom, Daisy and the Jordan belong to the “New Money”, in which they are inherited with the wealth and authorities. Money and power is the main motivation for many characters in the story, as they believe that wealth and power can bring eternal happiness. “I am still afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggests, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.” (Fitzgerald 2) Through this quote, the author expresses the unequal social class and authority that individuals struggle with at a young age. The people in east egg are characterized as the “ Old money”, in which they spend their time amusing themselves.

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In The Great Gatsby, social status is a significant element in the book as it separates the haves from the have nots. However more importantly, social status portrays the personalities of people belonging to different classes. In the end, you are stuck in the class you are born into, and attempting to change classes only leads to tragedy and heartbreak.     In The Great Gatsby, there are three main social classes portrayed. These are old money, new money, and no money.

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In the 1920’s, social classes were divided with a large gap. The poor wanted nothing to do with the rich, and the rich wanted even less to do with the poor. In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he uses the class structure in the 1920’s to redefine poverty. While the rich people in the novel are material rich, they are still “poor” socially and psychologically. Poverty is shown in a differently in this book than other books being written in this time era, and in doing this, it shows the rich what they are, and how they treat others from a different perspective.

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