The Role Of Social Classes In The Great Gatsby

Have you ever thought about the many social classes? Some believe social classes should all be treated equally. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates social classes as the East and West Egg. Nick Caraway, the narrator of the novel describes as both new and old money. Nick lived with Gatsby in West Egg or the "-well less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them." Even though West Egg was considered to be lower on the totem pole in relations to East Egg it was known that people who lived there were more deserving of the life they have. West Egg is where the newly rich settled, bought or built extravagant houses to show off their