How Does Daisy Corrupt In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby was written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. The novel, set place in 1922, is a flashback of Nick Carraway’s experiences during his summer in West Egg, New York. Recently, Gatsby has had one of his grand parties and Nick has attended a lunch with Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim. During the 1920’s the pursuit for wealth and recognition in order to reach a certain status corrupted people and had them make unacceptable decisions. Throughout the novel the concept of classes in society is prevalent. For example, Nick is lower class and has less money than Tom so he is at a lower rank in society's perspective than the Buchanan’s. A case of when society's pressure to succeed has make someone do something corrupt would be when Jordan,

Since obtaining the status of being right for a bet and winning money seems like a good idea no matter the cost, Wolfsheim rigged the results of the World Series. According to Gatsby, “‘He’s quite a character of New York- a denizen of Broadway’[...] ‘Meyer Wolfsheim? No he’s a gambler.’ Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: ‘He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919’[...] It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe” (Fitzgerald 72-73). The author uses the metaphor a of a “single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe” to explain that Wolfsheim's actions were risky and only had one interest that benefited himself in order to get ahead in society. Wolfshiem wanted earn money and be recognized as the one who voted for the team that he decided to win. This is similar to Jordan who as previously mentioned cheated during a golf tournament because she was corrupted by society. In this situation, Meyer Wolfsheim was depraved by society and the metaphor comparing him to those of a burglar’s substantiate that society is the source of corruption that brings its according social status