Gatsby Divisons Between Rich and Poor

Colors can tell someone an abundance of information on a topic because of the color’s warmth or the object it is most commonly seen in. Fitzgerald uses colors to further explain the meaning behind the symbols in his novel, “The Great Gatsby”. The novel is set in the 1920s in which the new rich came about. In Fitzgerald’s novel, the new rich, the old rich, and the working class socialize and create chaos; further explaining the thought that different social classes should not interact. The author Fitzgerald uses green to symbolize hope, white to depict innocence, and yellow to detect materialism and decay. Throughout his novel, “The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald’s use of color imagery conveys a theme.

The Great Gatsby takes place during a time when there is a great difference between the poor and the rich. The places where people live illustrate their class in society. The characters in the novel portray their social class in their personalities and actions. The theme of social class is important to the character development in Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby.

The emerging inequitable class systems and antagonisms of the nineteen twenties saw the traditional order and moral values challenged, as well as the creation of great wealth for few and poverty for many. The Great Gatsby, written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, explores the causes and effects of the unbalanced class structures. Fitzgerald outlines the idea that the desire to accumulate wealth and status is a common ambition amongst the lower classes; when that desire is reached, the traditional upper class is challenged by the emerging newly wealthy, which finally leads to destructive consequences. By creating rigid class structures, traditional upper class, new wealth, and the poor in The Great Gatsby, it is

Throughout the classic The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the rich and the poor are constantly juxtaposed against each other. The rich as ployed as being colorful and full of detail, while the poor is described as being "ashes" in a "desolate" landscape. This juxtaposition of the rich and poor makes it clear to the reader that Fitzgerald wanted the distinction to be blunt. Fitzgerald adds this distinction because he wants the reader to understand that the rich and the poor lead completely different lives. The rich are described in elaborate colors and detail because the they live lavish lifestyles. The rich own extravagant mansions, expensive cars and hydroplanes, and lead exciting lifestyles. On the contrary, the poor are described in

Throughout Chapter Three and Chapter Nine of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents varying presentations of the American Dream, and the role it plays between social classes. He manages to define, praise, and condemn the crumbling foundation and separations of society. While Fitzgerald is able to address the demise of the American Dream, he is also able to create a relatable yet ethereal depiction of the differences between class through his descriptive uses of imagery, diction, and details.

In this quote Fitzgerald illustrates the crucial contrast between the rich and poor when George Wilson, a resident of the Valley of Ashes, confronts Tom Buchannan about the car he is interested in. In reality does Tom need the car? No; nevertheless he goes out of his way to assert his superiority over the lower social class when he essentially makes George take back his comment. During the roaring twenties there was an enormous dissimilarity between the miserable struggles of the poor and the trouble free rich. It became impossible to reach this unrealistic goal of immense wealth when they couldn’t get out of the poverty stricken town they inhibit. Fitzgerald distinctly highlights this when George and his wife, Myrtle, finally have to opportunity to leave the desolate setting and she is killed. “’I’ve got my wife locked up in there,’ explained Wilson calmly. ‘She’s going to stay there till the day after tomorrow, and then we’re going to move away.’[…] A moment later she rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting – before he could move from his

Most of the artificial, fake, and decaying things in this chapter revolve around Myrtle. Myrtle lives in the Valley of Ashes, a place that is decayed and bleak. From her dog, to her style of talking, to her “love” for Tom, everything about Myrtle is fake because she’s trying to make herself believe that she’s a high class person when she’s actually not. Even Myrtle’s relationship with Tom is fake since he lied to her about Daisy’s religion because he doesn’t view it as a serious thing that he wants to pursue. I think Fitzgerald brought these things to light because he wanted to criticize the upper class for associating happiness with material objects and to show how shallow material objects actually

The Great Gatsby written in 1925 was a novel that expresses F. Scott Fitzgerald’s concerns for the direction that America was headed in during that decade. During the novel he repeatedly gives examples of the contrast of the economic classes; the thriving upper class in extravagant living conditions while the lower class lives in filth like “fields of ashes.” To criticize the American upper class during the nineteen twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses vivid imagery in his revelation of Gatsby’s facade to give the reader an idea of the contrast among the classes of the early nineteenth century and how it continues to last.

Fitzgerald uses wealth and possession of different people throughout the book to emphasise and justify the character's life choices. Myrtle’s belief of material things signifying to make a successful and wealthy person makes her

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.

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 social hierarchy is influenced by the amount of money one owns which determines whether one can attain their dream. By creating apparent social classes within ‘The Great Gatsby’ – old money, new money and no money, Fitzgerald strongly suggests that American society is intensely stigmatised. Daisy, Tom and Jordan represent the elite social class of society where despite their problems and failures they are always protected and immune by their wealth. Tom refers to Gatsby as ‘Mr Nobody from nowhere” and a “common swindler who would have to steal the ring he put on her finger” as he boasts about his hereditary wealth compared to the other distinct elite group of society who acquire their wealth through business deals, which are sometimes corrupt. Although Fitzgerald mainly attacks the rich, by making them look judgemental, superior and selfish, evidently the lower class of society are vulnerable within American society. This is shown where so many, like Myrtle,

The character Gatsby can be understood at a higher level with the help of Marxist ideas because he is a representative of the lower class that understands the difference in classes and the superiority of the higher class. Moreover, he is forced to gain entrance to the higher class because of this segregation. Firstly, Fitzgerald demonstrates the idea of the separation between the classes best through Gatsby. He is someone who has been a part of both the lower and the higher class in different periods of his

In the beginning, Fitzgerald’s diction and detail tells ideas that criticize the upper classes society through the narrator and other characters. “ ‘I told that boy about the ice. These people! You have to keep after them all the time.’ (69) She looked at me and laughed pointlessly.” Myrtle was born into the wrong class like Gatsby. She wanted to fit in and not look like a ridiculous lower class person. By her saying this it makes her feel better herself and seem wealthy. “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a catholic and does not believe in divorce.” (98) This was said by Tom and he said it to Myrtle to make it look his wife Daisy is religious and has morals. Morals are what catholics have to stay

Fitzgerald uses the no money class to make a strong statement as well. Nick although he doesn’t have money proves himself to be an honorable man. Almost immediately social discomfort is characterized by the Buchanan marriage however the affairs and actions of the old rich eventually lead to similarities between the wealthy and the poor. George and Myrtle’s interaction with the wealthy serve as a reinforcement for Fitzgerald’s social commentary on the rich. Myrtle is like Tom and she displays the same qualities that he does. She tries to exert a sort of superiority with her husband just as Tom does with people who he considers inferior to him. Myrtle’s actions cause the rich’s behavior to be seen as absurd and ridiculous by the