Social Class In The Great Gatsby

The book we are reading is The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. The topic that we researched is social class. Social class is groups of people in a certain social and economic ranking. Tom and Gatsby were wealthy so they would be in a higher social class than Nick. Nick was raised around wealthy people all his life most of the people went to Yale and are in the bond business. That’s why I think Nick is so used to being around rich people. Nick, Gatsby, and Tom are all in their own level of wealth, Tom was born into wealth And is still has a business, Nick was always surrounded by wealthy people but he isn’t as wealthy himself, And Gatsby Became Wealthy on his own with his business of bootlegging.
In the Great Gatsby Social classes plays a big role in showing the characters in many different ways. One way in showing social classes In the book is how they describe New York as West egg and East egg. West egg would be for the lower class and East egg is for the higher class. Nick wasn’t as wealthy as Gatsby and Tom Nick considered his home as an eyesore. “I live at the West egg-Well the
In the first paragraph, Nick reminisces about what his father had once told him. He states “ Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (Fitzgerald 1). This is important because Nick gets told to not let his status get to him. Nick thinks about this when he’s talking to people of lower status than he is because he remembers it closely. While discussing Gatsby, one lady noted “He‘s a bootlegger… “One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.”( Fitzgerald 61). This shows how people perceive Gatsby and how many different stories there are about him. The only thing they know about him is that he’s rich but they don’t know about his