What Is Social Stratification In The Great Gatsby

Social stratification is clearly found in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. American people put their emphasis on wealth, money and social class and status after the World War One due to their disillusionment and American Dream. The author skillfully describes the contemporary society by portraying his characters belong to the contemporary American culture and sets the characters’ social class division based on their hereditary wealth and economic state. I strongly support Weber’s social class theory and it is stated that three social classes are evident in the novel based on his theory. Nick, the narrator, belongs to the middle class, The Wilsons, Catherine, and minor characters to the lower class, and the Buchanans, Jordan, and Gatsby