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Examples Of Marxism In The Great Gatsby

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The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance became popular, mainly in the United States. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most famous authors during the Jazz Age, best known for his novel The Great Gatsby. In this novel Fitzgerald offers a variety of themes. One theme is more developed than the others which is social stratification. The Great Gatsby is rewarded as a brilliant piece of social commentary, offering a clear image of American’s life in the 1920s. By creating intelligible social classes “old money, new money, and no money” Fitzgerald sends strong messages about the Marxism running throughout every stratum of society.

First of all, Tom and Daisy Buchanan are in the old money class. They shirk responsibility for their actions. Daisy runs over Myrtle while driving Gatsby’s …show more content…

Gatsby bought a mansion across the bay from Daisy to stay close to her. He started throwing parties hoping to get her attention, so she will come to one of his parties. Nick said about Gatsby, “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago.” He took the blame for Myrtle’s death trying defending Daisy, and he kept the truth a secret that Daisy was the driving the car when she ran over Myrtle. In the end, everything Gatsby did is for nothing. Daisy never loved Gatsby as much as he did, and she picked Tom over him because he has old money which makes him more respectful in the community. Hence the will still divide the people with different social classes between the old money and the new

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