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How Is Society Portrayed In The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald presents a very harsh picture of the world in The Great Gatsby. Some characters are portrayed as lacking sentiment and value in humanity and rather concentrate more on wealth. Society is shown to be unified by wealth and this separates the different classes of people. However, this division of the social classes also is broken down into different categories. Just because one was wealthy, he or she belonged to the upper class society. How the person came about to attaining that wealth also mattered. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents two distinct types of wealthy people.
First, there are the “old money” people and examples of these were and Jordan Baker and the Buchanans who were fortunate enough to be born into wealth. Their …show more content…

Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby presents the world to be headed for disaster including both the social classes in different ways. The lower class having no money and denied from acceptance from society and the upper class in terms of morality and value and this disaster can be referred to as the result of the chain reaction of the race for people to gain wealth and social status. GRT72NHGF Fitzgerald presents a very harsh picture of the world in The Great Gatsby. Some characters are portrayed as lacking sentiment and value in humanity and rather concentrate more on wealth. Society is shown to be unified by wealth and this separates the different classes of people. However, this division of the social classes also is broken down into different categories. Just because one was wealthy, he or she belonged to the upper class society. How the person came about to attaining that wealth also mattered. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents two distinct types of wealthy …show more content…

Their families have had money for many generations. In the novel, the "old money" people do not have to work and do not stress about or speak about business issues. By not having to earn their wealth, the “old money” characters spend their time on leisure activities and whatever is in fashion or they desire. Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and the distinct social class they represent are perhaps the story 's most superior group, imposing distinctions on the other people of wealth like Gatsby based not so much on how much money one has, but where that money came from and when it was acquired.
For the "old money" people, the fact that Gatsby (and countless other people like him in the 1920s) has only just recently acquired his money is reason enough to dislike him. In their way of thinking, he can 't possibly have the same refinement, sensibility, and taste they have. Not only does he work for a living, but he comes from a low-class background which, in their opinion, means he cannot possibly be like

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