Examples Of Social Injustice In The Great Gatsby

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Lack of justice present in society, leading the powerful to commits acts of injustice against those without power. Society does not treat everyone fairly in The Great Gatsby, social injustice is evident in The Great Gatsby when Nick quotes, “About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” (Fitzgerald 26). Society has different standards and living conditions for those of other classes, unlike the old or new wealth the middle and poor class are shown to be suffering and work much harder than those of the other class but earn less of the pie, Fitzgerald view of the corrupt society present in the 1920’s is shown through the social inequalities that separate poor and rich defines the economic injustice present, the poor individuals are used by the rich for their own personal gain(). …show more content…

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