Interpersonal Relationships In The Great Gatsby

The novel, “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald, is very interesting due to its symbolism and foreshadowing through objects in the novel. Scott Fitzgerald is a great American writer from the 20th century and well known for his writings of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby was written under the historical background of the Roaring 20´s; a period characterized by a consumer society and known for the newly-arisen jazz music. The story is about Gatsby who fell in love with Daisy in their young adulthood, and now 5 years later, Gatsby wants to recover that love story. The problem is that she is now married and society is strictly discriminative, despite the unity of the American Dream for those seeking a better future such as Gatsby. “The Great Gatsby”

The novel doesn´t only narrate the story of Gatsby and his personal interest in recovering Daisy, but the hidden truth in each of the characters which affects the interpersonal relationships according to the social class they belonged to. The old-money people have a specific place to live: East Egg. Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy were both people who were born rich because their families had been rich for years. By observing the behaviors of these characters throughout the novel we can see they aren´t too open to the rest of the people. For example, Tom wasn´t kind with Wilson, and the few times he talked to him, most of his words were lies or rumors, but never a conversation like he would have with his polo friends the Sloane´s. Also we can see how Tom doesn´t think of everyone as equals, when he said racial comments of poor people. However, they had other people with money (West Eggers), but still they never saw them the same way as themselves. When a new-money person was to be accepted by the elite of East Egg? Maybe the only case would be Nick in the whole novel, but because he was family of Daisy and didn´t fit in either of the two high-social