Class Division And Capitalism In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts" said by Joseph Stalin explained the idea of the book The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this novel, the story revolved around class division and wealth as new money and old money. Gatsby was poor, but became really rich by bootlegging to get his love Daisy back, but even after he became rich, he was not worthy enough to get her love, demonstrating class division even within rich people. In this novel, the Marxist theory has been applied when the author portrayed class division between people. Mrs. Wilson had an affair with a rich man because her husband was poor, and Gatsby had to become rich in order to get his love back, which demonstrated difference …show more content…
Her servant picked up the phone, and told rudely to Nick that they were not at home and did not tell when they are. She loved Gatsby a lot and because of him she cheated on her husband, and she was spending most of her time with him. After, she realized that he had new money, she started loving her husband back and started ignoring him. He even took the blamed of Myrtle dead on him, but in reality she killed her. He really loved her, but she just loved money that she did not even care that Gatsby died because of her fault. It showed that upper class had class division as well because rich people with old money saw everyone as a lower class. They thought that they were the highest class and other rich people, with new money, were not considered equal to them. Therefore, Gatsby became rich but still did not consider to be same as other rich people because he did not have money from