Analysis Of ' The Great Gatsby '

At the surface level, The Great Gatsby is most renowned for the tragic love story of Jay Gatsby and Daisy. However, despite this popular understanding, it is rare to find an analysis of the underlying reasons behind their failed romance. In society, social class is a commonly used dividing factor that separates people based on income. In a similar way, the main characters of The Great Gatsby are divided into the following social classes; the old money, the newly- rich and the working class. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes social classes to create a distinct line between the rich and the poor, creating a distinct outcome to the novel due to the advantages and disadvantages of each group.

The novel is based around Jay Gatsby, the protagonist who obtains an exuberant amount of wealth and rises from the well-kept secret working class he was born into. However, he is unable to attain that true upper class, despite the fortune he has amassed. While Gatsby fooled many into believing he was a part of the upper class, he was unable to deceive the upper class. Jay Gatsby is never able to climb to the social class equivalent to his economic class; emphasizing that class strata are not based on how much money is amassed or the possession owned, but, from the social class one is born into. Through the novel, Fitzgerald proves that mobility does not exist and that social fluidity is prevented by the upper classes and their insurmountable grasp over power and control. In the 1920s, American society did not allow for social mobility, portrayed by Gatsby’s downfall as he attempted to delude the upper class by associating wealth with class.

One of the most important themes in the novel is the important of class. Fitzgerald makes it evident that the social classes are divided by the setting, the possessions thy have and how that certain individual interacts and behaves with other people. This is shown by Fitzgerald uses powerful adjectives and verbs to portray to the reader what that character is like. I am looking at the importance of class as this is the reason for the differences in the characters.

Fitzgerald depicts each of his characters’ personalities by their actions through their social status. The characters who are upper class are aware of their speech, unlike those whom are lower class that do not think before they talk.

Society tends to harbor an inherent and often unavoidable nature that unfairly favors those who are wealthy yet corrupt, and forces those who are moral and noble to suffer. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald comments on this concept with the characters Tom and Gatsby. By comparing and contrasting Tom and Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald develops his critique of the class structure of 1920s America that allows corrupt characters to thrive while punishing sympathetic characters for striving for their dreams.

The way wealth affects the social status on the characters is sad. Fitzgerald reflects social status through geographical locations in America and distinguishes

The main theme throughout Fitzgerald’s novel is that wealth leads to corruption. Several characters in the novel have corrupt aspects, such as Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson. This can be seen through the indirect and direct characterization of the characters. Each of the characters corruptness is evident in their perspectives and actions. The motivation of wealth also corrupts an individual. Wealth makes a person act a certain way and do certain things. Fitzgerald uses imagery to embody the personality of Myrtle as being corrupt. Fitzgerald’s use of irony shows that society wants to be with you only if you have money. In order to be with someone you have to be up to their standard.

The Great Gatsby’s parties were always filled to the brim with members of the upper class. The people were beautiful, established, and accustomed to excess. From the outside, the United States appeared to be just as prosperous as the partygoers. However, this was far from the truth. The lower class struggled with in America in the same way the upper class struggled with morality. F. Scott Fitzgerald captures both ideas with his novel; he shows us specific examples of people distracted from ideals by the influence of money.

In The Great Gatsby, by Frances Scott Fitzgerald, social class is a predominant role, characterizing the mentalities of the people from different social classes, which affect the events that arise among the characters. A classic novel in which money is the center of many characters’ lives, however that money could not buy happiness. In reality, there is no such thing as an American dream, you are who you are born, and trying to change your social class will not end up all right.

Class structure in the 1920’s seemed to be very divided. The famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald, is especially known for his overview of the kind of society that was the 1920’s.Many references are made through his character, the separation of living places, and the amount of wealth that each character upholds. Within Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby,” he centers his story line to outline how the social class was viewed in the 1920’s.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald offers commentary on a variety of themes, power, greed, betrayal, the All-American dream, etc. The Great Gatsby is known as a brilliant novel of social criticism, offering a vivid view into the life in the 1920s in America. Fitzgerald carefully constructs his novel into specific groups but, in the end, each group has its own problems to deal with, leaving a powerful reminder of what a “delicate” place the world really is. By creating social classes — old money (upper class), new money (sort of what you would call a middle class), and no money (and the lower class) — Fitzgerald sends strong messages about the stiff running throughout every level of society.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald tells us story of both great riches and secrets. A story that highlights both the glory and the deceit behind the roaring 1920’s. Fitzgerald conveys to us a theme of the decline of the American dream in the 1920’s. This is seen in both the book, and the 2007 on screen adaptation of the Great Gatsby.

Fitzgerald’s fascination and growing distrust of the wealthy is repeatedly shown in his characters. Many characters are affected by not having the amount of money the people in their life want and are taken advantage of by the higher classes. Nick, even though

The middle and lower classes during this era were suffering substantially, and were also far less educated than the elite upper tier of society. These social and financial issues were contributing factors to the way Fitzgerald portrayed the enormous disparity between the “haves” and the “have-nots”. Certainly in the “Great Gatsby” he describes the upper class as a frivolous, shallow group of socialites who are largely unreadable and difficult to empathize with. His protagonist Nick in the “Great Gatsby” is an outsider, one from little means who becomes fascinated with

The Great Gatsby presents different social groups to embody and transmit the idea that each class has it’s own problems to prevail over and unhappiness transcends over all the social classes. The problems in each group, despite the social stratification, reveal the instability of the world they live in. The three classes are old money, new money, and no money in which all three believe their own rules of survival in society and enforce boundaries between social classes. Fitzgerald uses the similarities between the poor and the rich to reinforce his opinion and his characterization of the upper class.