This book really taught me about the difference in social class. To be born in a high class social status, to have a lineage of a rich family is completely different then becoming rich. The high class society looks down on a poor man who had to work to make his money because he was not born into it. This is a complex and sad love story, considered to be Fitzgerald’s greatest novel.
The story takes place in the wealthy Long Island district of East Egg, inhabited by the old aristocracy and West Egg an area looked down upon by those in East Egg. People are judged by the amount in their bank account and their social connections.
Jay Gatsby, falls in love with Daisy, a woman from the social elite, but loses her due to their different social standing. He is a self made man and makes a lot of money trying to impress her and win her love. She instead, marries a man from her own social strata and has and affair with Gatsby.
The story takes place in the wealthy Long Island district of East Egg, inhabited by the old aristocracy and West Egg an area looked down upon by those in East Egg. People are judged by the amount in their bank account and their social connections.
Jay Gatsby, falls in love with Daisy, a woman from the social elite, but loses her due to their different social standing. He is a self made man and makes a lot of money trying to impress her and win her love. She instead, marries a man from her own social strata and has and affair with Gatsby.
Fitzgerald makes a strong statement that the possibility of social mobility in America is an illusion.
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