Theme Of Society And Class In The Great Gatsby
The Roaring 20’s
The roaring twenties was a period of economic prosperity was filled men and women of wealth, who were careless and rebellious. Many upper class in individuals were able to spend money thoughtlessly. F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts it thought his book in The Great Gatsby. He portrays the upper aristocracy with their expensive cars, polo ponies, and lavish parties.
Fitzgerald uses the motif parties throughout the book which help him unfold the theme of society and class and that goes on to show the charterer’s personality.
The first party that appeared in the novel was at the house of Tom Buchannan in East egg it was a small gathering thrown out of sheer boredom. This is the first symbol of society and class, the Buchannan’s where able …show more content…
When they have dinner they are being severed at the table they dint even have to lift a pinky a sign of the society they live in. Later in the book Fitzgerald shows another symbol of class by the way Daisy pesters Tom by calling him ‘hulking, brute of a man’ which Tom clearly does not like but does nothing more than protest.
The second party motif of The Great Gatsby began when Tom and Nick meet Myrtle in
New York. Myrtle threw a party by calling her sister and downstairs neighbor’s to join the three of them in the apartment that Tom rented out for her. There are no servant’s at this party Tom tells her “get some more ice and mineral water, myrtle, before everybody goes to sleep.”(Fitzgerald, 32) A symbol of class she could not afford a servant boy to get the ice for her, she has to labor over other people unlike daisy. “ Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! Shouted Mrs. Wilson I’ll say it whenever I want to Daisy! Da---“Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” Tom broke Myrtle’s nose (Fitzgerald, 37) this is a symbol of
The roaring twenties was a period of economic prosperity was filled men and women of wealth, who were careless and rebellious. Many upper class in individuals were able to spend money thoughtlessly. F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts it thought his book in The Great Gatsby. He portrays the upper aristocracy with their expensive cars, polo ponies, and lavish parties.
Fitzgerald uses the motif parties throughout the book which help him unfold the theme of society and class and that goes on to show the charterer’s personality.
The first party that appeared in the novel was at the house of Tom Buchannan in East egg it was a small gathering thrown out of sheer boredom. This is the first symbol of society and class, the Buchannan’s where able …show more content…
When they have dinner they are being severed at the table they dint even have to lift a pinky a sign of the society they live in. Later in the book Fitzgerald shows another symbol of class by the way Daisy pesters Tom by calling him ‘hulking, brute of a man’ which Tom clearly does not like but does nothing more than protest.
The second party motif of The Great Gatsby began when Tom and Nick meet Myrtle in
New York. Myrtle threw a party by calling her sister and downstairs neighbor’s to join the three of them in the apartment that Tom rented out for her. There are no servant’s at this party Tom tells her “get some more ice and mineral water, myrtle, before everybody goes to sleep.”(Fitzgerald, 32) A symbol of class she could not afford a servant boy to get the ice for her, she has to labor over other people unlike daisy. “ Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! Shouted Mrs. Wilson I’ll say it whenever I want to Daisy! Da---“Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” Tom broke Myrtle’s nose (Fitzgerald, 37) this is a symbol of