The Role Of The Proletariat In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, written in 1925 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, was a tale of the gilded East Coast of America in the wild decade known by “The Roaring 20s”. From the Wealthiest of Nobles to the Lowest of Peasants, The Great Gatsby highlights the differences between the proletariat and the blessed bourgeoisie, having come to riches through means of simple inheritance. Every identity of the character as the bourgeoisie or the proletariat are shown in definite form; the rich emanate a careless aura and the poor are coated with layers of sweat and dust. All, from the aristocratic and arrogant Tom, to the hard-working Myrtle, and to the idealistic Gatsby, are defined by Fitzgerald as of the low or the high. In using character description, self-comparison, and class comparison, Fitzgerald reveals Jordan as the final
In Tom and Daisy, he shows the part of him that fits into the upper class, among the rich “fellows” of the East and beautiful fools of the South such as his wife Zelda. Nick is the logical side shown in the mentality of the working class, for throughout his life, Fitzgerald is not completely crazy nor careless like the people with inheritance. And Gatsby is his idealistic spirit: the personification of his greatest hopes, his finest dreams, and his most wondrous passions. However, Jordan Baker, the last of the main characters, is the only one without a clear identity of rich and poor, and the other four are evenly divided between old and new money, leaving Fitzgerald’s wealth status as a stagnant tie, strung between two classes. While, Fitzgerald gives Jordan the exterior of an elite noble as he paints himself as one throughout the Roaring 20s, reality is the fact that under the mask is the spirit of a lowly human, someone who has worked so hard to reach the top: Jordan through golf, and Fitzgerald through his writing. This relates to someone who has reached the