Class in F. Scott Fitzgerald´s The Great Gatsby

To what extent is class important in Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby?
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.
Talk about Gatsby, Tom Buchanan and George Wilson.
James Gatz, otherwise known as Gatsby, is depicted as someone who is very rich as he has purchased a gaudy mansion in the West Egg and he throws lavish weekly parties. He is like the hero of the novel; however, he is one of the many bootleggers in the 20s who rose to fortune because of the crime that they committed in the past and becoming millionaires overnight.
He struggles to forge a new identity out of the material riches he has accumulated. He tries to defy the traditional boundaries of class to win back Daisy Buchanan, the girl he really loves.
Gatsby is one of the newly rich people who have no history of their ancestors in the past and these people are presented as being very vulgar and ostentatious. For example, Gatsby owns a massive ornate house.

In The Great Gatsby, does wealth alone decide which class a character belongs to?
I think that wealth alone does not decide which class a character belongs to. This is because Daisy, the wife of Tom Buchanan has no specific goal in life. She cannot even think for herself because she has never had to. She talks to Nick as if he is part of a group which is secluded from the lives of the East ...

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... York City consists of a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.
Throughout history many societies have had upper, middle, and lower classes. The classes formed separate communities of diverse living and never crossed social barriers. In the book, The Great Gatsby, instead of streets and communities separating each class there was a sound. On West Egg, the rich received their money not from inheritance but from what they accomplished by themselves. They worked hard for their money and received no financial support from