Social Class In The Great Gatsby

overall theme of The Great Gatsby because he explains how social classes are formed and the mindsets of those within each social class. He stresses how the upper class worries about luxury goods while the lower class is worried about day to day necessities. In The Great Gatsby, Jay throws these extravagant parties with hundreds of people but in reality, only a few of them are his actual friends. He throws these parties to become familiar with his love Daisy, but at the same time is showing off his wealth and making him seem above others so they aspire to be like him one day. These parties are described by the narrator as a “caravansary of billionaire playboy publishers with blond nurses, heiresses comparing inheritances on Gatsby’s beach,

Both authors believed that a change in the American status system would not change if people were not aware about these class issues. The diversity of classes might be obvious to some, but others are blindfolded from it because they keep within their bubble and do not go outside of their boundaries. Those who are grouped within the same class share social interests and behaviors which therefore lends themselves to stick with each other and become comfortable with their style of life. Usually when a routine if formed, individuals do not like to change their habits which is the reason for them keeping within their own social class. Those who believe America is a classless society are completely unbeknownst and blind regarding this issue. The Great Gatsby illuminates that America is a society with a multitude of classes. Once you are born, you continue to grow and learn the values of the class that you were born into and since these ideologies are pushed onto you, it is very difficult to escape them. Once arriving in West Egg, Long Island, Nick Carraway was surprised by the lifestyle that he was immersed by and was caught off guard, since he had never seen anything like it. In the beginning, this extraordinary life style seemed like a dream to be apart of but, Nick Carraway quickly learned the truth about how everyone lived and his opinion was completely reversed. After living this outlandish and extravagant lifestyle, he realized that this lifestyle filled with corruption, dishonesty and lying was not something that he wanted to be apart of. An example of this corruption is when Nick Carraway begins to learn that Gatsby’s money was not actually inherited but instead was made though illegal dealings with Wolfsheim. Gatsby responds quickly responds after being questioned by Nick Carraway, “Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself. "I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business.