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Society and Class
The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the early part of the twentieth century. One of the most prominent themes running through the story is about society and class groups. The first and most obvious group Fitzgerald describes is the rich. However, for Fitzgerald and certainly his characters, placing the rich all in one group together would be a great mistake. For many of those of modest means, the rich seem to be unified by their money. However, Fitzgerald reveals this is not the case. In my art work, I decided to split the page into three groups of people, the rich, the middle class and the poor. The rich did not talk about earning money, the middle class talked about getting and working for more money and the poor were also focused on money as they had none. My art work portrays the hierarchy of wealth from rich to poor, it also shows the importance of having money to survive on many levels, the rich are portrayed as selfish, the middle class who were earning new money were striving to class climb within the class and the poor were trying to survive and were struggling with the injustices of the inequality of society. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents two distinct types of wealthy people. First, there are people like the Buchanan’s and Jordan Baker who were born into wealth. Their families have had money for many generations; hence they are "old money." As portrayed in the novel, the "old money" people don't have to work as hard, they speak about business arrangements and they spend their time amusing themselves with whatever takes their fancy. Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and the distinct social class they represent are perhaps the story's most elitist group, imposing distinctions on the other people of wealth, like Gatsby, and not based on how much money one has, but where that money came from and when it was acquired. For the "old money" people, the fact that Gatsby and countless other people like him in the 1920s
The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the early part of the twentieth century. One of the most prominent themes running through the story is about society and class groups. The first and most obvious group Fitzgerald describes is the rich. However, for Fitzgerald and certainly his characters, placing the rich all in one group together would be a great mistake. For many of those of modest means, the rich seem to be unified by their money. However, Fitzgerald reveals this is not the case. In my art work, I decided to split the page into three groups of people, the rich, the middle class and the poor. The rich did not talk about earning money, the middle class talked about getting and working for more money and the poor were also focused on money as they had none. My art work portrays the hierarchy of wealth from rich to poor, it also shows the importance of having money to survive on many levels, the rich are portrayed as selfish, the middle class who were earning new money were striving to class climb within the class and the poor were trying to survive and were struggling with the injustices of the inequality of society. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents two distinct types of wealthy people. First, there are people like the Buchanan’s and Jordan Baker who were born into wealth. Their families have had money for many generations; hence they are "old money." As portrayed in the novel, the "old money" people don't have to work as hard, they speak about business arrangements and they spend their time amusing themselves with whatever takes their fancy. Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and the distinct social class they represent are perhaps the story's most elitist group, imposing distinctions on the other people of wealth, like Gatsby, and not based on how much money one has, but where that money came from and when it was acquired. For the "old money" people, the fact that Gatsby and countless other people like him in the 1920s