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Examples Of Social Class In The Great Gatsby

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When thinking of something who has class, many immediately think of wealth. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald creates distinct social classes -- old money, new money, and proletariats. Fitzgerald first starts off by attacking the bourgeois. However, there are two distinct types of wealthy people. There are people like Daisy and Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker who were born into wealth. They have had money in their families for many generations, hence they are considered “old money”. In the novel, the “old money” people feign work, displaying minimal effort, and usually spend time doing whatever they please. As implied, these incredulous facets of the characters intimate that money is everything. Seen from the “old money”
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