On the contrary to the old money, there is new money. New money implicates people that are rich, but their money is worked for, not from inheritance. This population lives in West Egg, “the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.” Living in this area is Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby, the protagonist; both lack social grace and etiquettes. In addition, Gatsby hosts his splendid parties, indicating that he is showing off his wealth to others and attempting to attract the one he loves, Daisy, whom lives exactly across the bay from him. Also, Nick Carraway states that the parties, “preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside- East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.” Furthermore, the character of …show more content…
In addition, characters with old money don’t exactly have specification on what to spend on with the wealth that they hold. Some characters portrayed in the novel that are unable to spend their money wisely are Gatsby and Wolfsheim. Gatsby, certainly, spends all his wealth on his mansion, car, parties, and attires, as a way of impressing his forever love, Daisy. On the other hand, Mr. Meyer Wolfsheim spends his money on meaningless objects such as his “cuff buttons”, which were “oddly familiar pieces of ivory”; he states them as, “finest specimens of human molars”. The reason behind his spending is because he is too attached to his past, the old Metropole; Gatsby makes a comment about nice restaurant and Wolfsheim remembers the area of it. He has a slight flashback, in which he remembers the old Metropole and gloomily describes the incident that happened, “Filled with faces dead and