Wealth In The Great Gatsby

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had,”(5). Wealth, social status, and power, are all different advantages people are born with or without in this world. With that in mind one should consider, basically what they had to deal with when the wealthy criticizes them compared to what the wealthy had. The wealthy often criticizes the poor for not taking advantages of the work that they were providing during the time; however, the wealthy never really considered that they never had to have gone through as much as the common people do when they go about their miserable lives. On the other hand, it is the wealthy who should be criticized for their actions,

Gatsby, the wealthy friend, moved next to the protagonist, Nick, in order to get a good view of the home of his former lover, Daisy. The story continues as a love story between Gatsby and Daisy, reuniting after a long time apart; however, Daisy had married someone in that time period apart, Tom. By end of the story, Daisy and Gatsby had ran over someone’s wife, and Daisy and Tom move away in order to avoid trouble. They had did this before anyone found out that Daisy was responsible, as Gatsby took the blame, and was murdered by the killed wife’s

After the average population made their paycheck, they then focused on their material goods, purchasing whatever was the new thing, or the thing everyone had. With “extra money to spend, and they spent it on consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothes and home appliances like electric refrigerators”(History, The Roaring Twenties). The thing to get with their money in those times, were the new appliances and new fashion, something everyone did. Plus, since everyone is doing it, the bandwagon effect takes place, and everyone who has not done it, attempts to do it. Since necessities are met, extra money goes towards materialic desires. One of the more popular materialistic desires was the radio, as “by the end of the 1920s, there were radios in more than 12 million households”(History, The Roaring Twenties). 12 million is a vast majority of the American population at the time, illustrating how monumental the radio is, and how many people flowed to some new creation in a short amount of time. If someone did not have a radio yet, all of their extra money was saved for one, as it soon became necessary for every American to at least own a radio. The bandwagon effect takes place again, and materialism is still at the top of everyone’s minds, as to enjoy life, was to own this product,