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Superiority In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott fitzgerald crafted many themes; one of them being the idea that society is unfair to those of the average and giving a double standard to the upper; this being further developed through the motif of superiority, which is presented through discussions about eugenics and arguments about self worth between the characters. In one case the story the reference to eugenics or racism is made by Tom at the table, because he wanted to boats about reading in this case a book called The Rise of Colored Empires Detailing why the “colored” people of the world must be beaten down or else they will stage a coup on e the white or caucasian of the world. In addition to the mentioning of the book the use of arrogance as the tone given off by tom. However while the tone of daisy when she says “we've got to beat them down”(Fitzgerald 13) in what i perceived as an sarcastic tone, followed by trying to re credit that those of nordic descent are the ones who crafted civilization. While in the book this was the most detailed situation or scene in which the motif of superiority was exemplified there was another example later during the conflict amongst the party while in the city by tom …show more content…

In this conflict between the two comments such as “she's not leaving me for a common swindler”( Fitzgerald 133). Through this statement it was to degrade gatsby as lower which was referenced before however no to him. Gatsby then attempted to use his assumption that daisy never loved him in order to boost himself while lowering tom in order to prove the superiority of his relationship with daisy.while this is a emotional rather than material like that of the prior it shows the drive for emotional

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