The Great Gatsby
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby a classic twentieth-century story that talks about the quest and shows a vision of the American dream, there’s as well a lot of symbolism and a lot of depth. Even that most subtle thing can mean something huge. However, one of the least subtle themes in the Great Gatsby is the separation of social classes. There are different social classes that are represented in different ways which create distinct social classes; old money, the new money, and the no money.
The first and most obvious group Fitzgerald mentions is of course, the rich. The rich I personally thought were unified by the money. However, in The Great Gatsby, he talks about two distinct types of wealthy people the old and the new money. There is a role of new money and old money, not a new form of currency, but those who are new to wealth, and those who have had it in their families for a long time. Both are in the same class of wealth, but new money and old money spend their wealth differently, and have different maturities while handling their money There are people like the Buchannan’s and Jordan Baker who were born into wealth. Their families have had money for many generations; hence they are "old money”. As said in the novel by nick, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” This was an example how other saw the "old money” situation. In the story it was said Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and the distinct social class they represent a whole different type of wealth compared to Gatsby; based not so much on how much money one had, but where that money came from. For the "old money" people, the fact that Gatsby had just recently gained the money he had made them dislike him. They thought he could be in the same class because he came from a low-class background, for
The first and most obvious group Fitzgerald mentions is of course, the rich. The rich I personally thought were unified by the money. However, in The Great Gatsby, he talks about two distinct types of wealthy people the old and the new money. There is a role of new money and old money, not a new form of currency, but those who are new to wealth, and those who have had it in their families for a long time. Both are in the same class of wealth, but new money and old money spend their wealth differently, and have different maturities while handling their money There are people like the Buchannan’s and Jordan Baker who were born into wealth. Their families have had money for many generations; hence they are "old money”. As said in the novel by nick, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” This was an example how other saw the "old money” situation. In the story it was said Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and the distinct social class they represent a whole different type of wealth compared to Gatsby; based not so much on how much money one had, but where that money came from. For the "old money" people, the fact that Gatsby had just recently gained the money he had made them dislike him. They thought he could be in the same class because he came from a low-class background, for