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The voice of working class in narrating “The Great Gatsby” And Materialism critical point of view

Sareh Ramezan
Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch
Dr. Tafreshi:
Writing Research paper

Introduction

The purpose of this study is a brief explanation of Marxism and also how it appears in The Great Gatsby“. The Great Gatsby (1925) is generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel. The problem is ruler ship of higher classes on lower and worker classes of society. It is Important because the pressure of this ruler ship destroys life and also dream for the lower classes in the society. I want to work on some critical points on this novel by Philips Northman and others, to find out how different between classes of society could damage to the people and destroy their life and dreams, and also how the story criticize or fail to critique the differences between classes of society? From Materialism point of view this novel has some critical points about materialistic view to the life, because people ideology after world war. They pursued themselves to find ideology between matters. So this Materialistic perspective effect on individual and society and engage them to struggle to achieve more wealth.
At the end of the novel we notice how this materialistic view of

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