Climbing The Social Ladder In The Great Gatsby
Climbing the Social Ladder
Climbing the social ladder in today's day and age, is most likely, if not more, just as hard as previous centuries. As of today, there is multiple affirmation about how climbing the social ladder is purely by gender and families financial status. Many say women in the workforce have it harder than men because women are seen as weak and easily manipulated. Some say if the parents were already classified as middle-class, their children would then also become middle-class. Why is that? It's explained that, if children had rich upbringing, their drive increases later in life to continue what money can bring and do whatever it took, even if it meant acting on immoral situations. As for middle-class, they were brought …show more content…
In previous centuries, gender and identity was the one characteristic specific about yourself that built you up or tore up down. Fitzgerald discusses the role of gender within the social class framework. With a few exceptions, each of the social groups are represented by at least on person of each sex. The exceptions, freedoms and restrictions imposed on the characters based on their sex becomes apparent when contrasting character to character. The major premise of the book,“The Great Gatsby”, is about the desire in both, gender and financial status, to ascend the social …show more content…
Originally coming from a working class family, he changed his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby and attempted to hid his background, ensuring that once he got to where he wanted to be his last name wasn’t a poor man's origin. Besides that, all his attempts at the extravagant parties, he hoped that one day Daisy would show up, but never once did Gatsby comment about the parties or any of his success just for his own sake. In contrast to the Buchanan's, Gatsby purly wanted someone to love, rather than the status of being
Climbing the social ladder in today's day and age, is most likely, if not more, just as hard as previous centuries. As of today, there is multiple affirmation about how climbing the social ladder is purely by gender and families financial status. Many say women in the workforce have it harder than men because women are seen as weak and easily manipulated. Some say if the parents were already classified as middle-class, their children would then also become middle-class. Why is that? It's explained that, if children had rich upbringing, their drive increases later in life to continue what money can bring and do whatever it took, even if it meant acting on immoral situations. As for middle-class, they were brought …show more content…
In previous centuries, gender and identity was the one characteristic specific about yourself that built you up or tore up down. Fitzgerald discusses the role of gender within the social class framework. With a few exceptions, each of the social groups are represented by at least on person of each sex. The exceptions, freedoms and restrictions imposed on the characters based on their sex becomes apparent when contrasting character to character. The major premise of the book,“The Great Gatsby”, is about the desire in both, gender and financial status, to ascend the social …show more content…
Originally coming from a working class family, he changed his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby and attempted to hid his background, ensuring that once he got to where he wanted to be his last name wasn’t a poor man's origin. Besides that, all his attempts at the extravagant parties, he hoped that one day Daisy would show up, but never once did Gatsby comment about the parties or any of his success just for his own sake. In contrast to the Buchanan's, Gatsby purly wanted someone to love, rather than the status of being