Gatsby Socioeconomic Class

Have people ever thought that one would like to join a higher class? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby follows his American Dream of joining another socioeconomic class. The American Dream, more prevalent in the 20th century, is where every person should have the same opportunities. Jay Gatsby’s struggle to be apart of the same world as Daisy Buchanan shows how one cannot change their socioeconomic class Gatsby attempts to follow the path of the American Dream throughout the novel by pursuing a better life. Initially, Gatsby follows “toward the American Dream...while poetically evoking a sense of goodness to [the] early dream” (Bewley 859). Bewley demonstrates that Gatsby was like many other people at this

In the Great Gatsby, the American Dream is posed as “withering away” (Eble 36). Eble describes the American Dream of withering away and that all people striving for their American Dream are coming up short. People that desire to be one of the upper class, or the American Dream, will now struggle more than they already do. Likewise, Eble portrays critics as the cause of the “portrayal of the naive American Dream in a corrupt society”(Eble 35). Kenneth Eble initially says that people cannot go any further with the American Dream because we live in such a corrupt society. Additionally he states that our corruption in our societies is what causes the pitfall of the American Dream. Eble claims that it is the people's fault that the American Dream is dying. Significantly, Eble claims that it is the people's fault that the American Dream is

Many times Gatsby has attempted to get on Daisy’s level, but Daisy would only come down to his level a few times such as when she says that “[She has] never seen such—such beautiful shirts before” (Fitzgerald 99). This shows how Daisy Buchanan did love Gatsby, but was in no way, willing to go down to his status/level. Daisy claims that she has never seen such beautiful shirts, but obviously that is not the case since she is a part of the upper class and she see's shirts of that quality daily. Daisy lies to Gatsby to let him think that they have a chance at ending up together. This shows how Gatsby chases his American Dream of moving up to the upper class with Daisy, but that is going to be a difficult task while having Tom Buchanan, present much of the time. Daisy claims that Tom is too harsh and that’s, “what [Daisy] get[s] for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a–” (Fitzgerald 15). Daisy claims that Tom is a hulking, brute of a man, so that Gatsby will not mess with him. Daisy is somewhat of Tom’s property since they are married. Daisy is trying to explain to Gatsby that Tom is this big guy that you do not want to be associated with and since Daisy still loves him, Gatsby’s American Dream is going away part by part. Overall, Daisy attempted to make Gatsby see that his American Dream is out of