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How Is The Great Gatsby Filthy Rich

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In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald depicted that the American Dream was to be filthy rich. In the story everyone focused on wealth. The lower class wanted to be rich so they either had affairs with the rich or they became acquainted with them. Being part of the middle class wasn’t enough for people. Gatsby didn’t value who he was so he did any and everything he could do to become rich to make Daisy happy. Even though she had loved him, Daisy refused to marry Gatsby because his position in life was too low for her. The upper class people, having already achieved the American Dream, have little care for anyone outside of their money bubble. One part in the book explained how during one of Gatsby’s parties a table was knocked over. It explained
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