Social Class In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Social class can make or break a person because of how inescapable it is in today's society and even back then in the Jazz age. The Great Gatsby is all about social class and its benefits to the people who earned it through family and its issues to those who had to work hard for it as it's all about Gatsby and his dream to find Daisy, his past love. The divide of social class in The Great Gatsby is very prominent and one of the key factors of the novel as it shows us in depth dives into our characters and their ways of life during that time. Social class is the main divide in the novel and is very prominent in certain characters. F Scott Fitzgerald uses the characterization and relationships of Tom, Daisy, and Myrtle to show that social class

After having an argument with both Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Gatsby go on a drive. Daisy is driving and accidentally runs Myrtle over, killing her. No one other than Daisy and Gatsby knows about what has occurred. In chapter 7 page 139 there is a talk about the person who hit Myrtle “what happened?--that's what I want to know.’ a policeman replies saying “ Auto hit her. Ins’stantly killed.” This shows us that they don't know who killed Myrtle but later in the chapter Nick asks if Daisy is driving Gatsby replies “yes” this leads to Tom & Daisy sitting in the moonlight happy and unhappy. These moments show us that Daisy kills someone and gets to be able to both be free and partially happy with Tom. These events also lead to Gatsby's unfortunate demise at the hands of George Wilson who was married to Myrtle and was so grief stricken he was delusional. There

She's reminded of that when she feels betrayed by her husband and when she dies, people forget she existed in a few weeks. These statements she says about her husband Mr Wlson were said during her party at her apartment and she talks about their wedding and how she felt betrayed. Myrtle says this about her husband “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.'' She later states ““The only CRAZY I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in, and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out. ‘oh, is that your suit?’ I said. ‘this is the first I ever heard about it.’ But I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried to beat the band all afternoon.” (Fitzgerald 2). What she says about her husband shows us that she only married him so she could be in a higher social class and that's the thing about Myrtle she is always looking for a chance to be a higher class then she is. This climb of higher class is for nothing as Myrtle is killed by Daisy when she is run over and this is talked about but not for a long time. This is stated about Myrtle's death by Nick “When I passed the ashheaps on the train that morning I had crossed deliberately to the other