Social Class In The Great Gatsby

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Time and time again our social media irks the public to strive for a lifestyle of hard work and perseverance and it promises that through this effort one will reach the sought after upper class shared by movie stars and CEOs. This high social class in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” where we find our major characters classified in is just an illusion of money and power; the real high class society is fully of criminals, liars, thieves, and frauds. The idea of appearing rich is not always about carrying around bags of money but by wearing “fancy” clothing and speaking with elegance. This fancy way of life is so easy a pauper could do it. At Gatsby’s parties, many people show up with mysterious pseudo names and can be seen drinking copious or where they go after the party. For …show more content…

Other than the cars and clothes these sac religion adults there is no other way of knowing they really had money; they could all be fakes. Behind the haze of alcohol, the reported news of the parties was as exaggerated as possible. On a second thought, if the upper class included noble honest men, then Gatsby’s partiers are not upper class. For example, “the novel is full of characters who are by most standards immoral people […] people at Gatsby’s parties spread scandalous rumors about him.” (BBC.co.uk) The parties were totally free and didn’t need an invitation. Gatsby set up these nice parties and the people showed up uninvited,

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