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Examples Of Marxism In The Great Gatsby

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In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is an anti-Marxist text. For instance, there are class distinctions in the novel. The rich will live in East Egg and the poor will live in West Egg. Nick Carraway is a poor clerk that “live[s] at West Egg, the – well, the less fashionable of the two” (10). On the other hand, Tom Buchannan is an “enormously wealthy” man that lives “across the courtesy bay by the white palaces of fashionable East Egg” (11). In a Marxist society, there should be equal distribution and treatment between people regardless of their classes. As a result, due to class differences, it suggests that it is an anti-Marxist text. In addition, it promotes the idea that “the rich get richer and the poor get

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