The Carelessness of the Upper Class within The Great Gatsby In the American fiction novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald there is a strong focus on the arrogance of the upper class, and how they treat those around them. The Great Gatsby takes place in 1920s New York, it tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, a millionaire who throws elaborate parties and has a mysterious past. Nick Carraway, a young man working in the stock market moves in next to him. He is invited to one of Gatsby’s parties, which sparks his curiosity about the man. He learns that Gatsby is in love with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan. Over the course of the novel Jay and Daisy fall in love again, and Jay forces her to tell
…show more content…
This causes an argument to break out. Jay and Daisy start to head home, Daisy driving the car, when they hit and kill Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s secret lover. Daisy drives off, leaving Myrtle in the road. George Wilson, Myrtle's husband, identifies the car as being Jay Gatsby’s car. He decides to kill Jay, and shoots him in his mansion, thus killing him. We are introduced to many rich characters throughout the novel, many are very arrogant and vapid and do not treat others fairly. Jay and Daisy are both very vapid, and do not always think their actions through. Both are very disconnected from reality, and do not realize the impacts of their actions. Tom is arrogant and cruel, he feels discontempt for the lower class and the social climbers. Fitzgerald attempts to represent his resentment towards the upper class, which is why we are presented with this interesting idea of society and all the corruption and carelessness within it. Within the novel the characters live in a hypocritical world of riches, showing fake emotions and …show more content…
They have been deeply in love for many years, but Jay has created a god-like figure in his head. She is strongly represented by the color white, which can be interpreted as a pure and noble color, but in reality it represents Daisy’s superficiality and emptiness. Gatsby is in love with the idea of Daisy. He believes, even though she is married and has a child that he can woo her and make her his. She is the only thing he has left to acquire in his life, he has massive riches, a beautiful house and many cars, he just needs a woman to show off and flaunt. Gatsby believes he can recreate the past, which shows his naive and delusional side. He is very driven and persistent however and when he and Daisy meet for the first time in many years they instantly form a very strong connection once again, Daisy gives no thought about what this will mean to Tom or her child. Daisy and Gatsby are both motivated by wealth, that is one of the reasons why Daisy married Tom, and why Jay has gone into the bootlegging business. All Daisy has ever known is grand riches and an easy life, “”Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money - that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbias song of it. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl.” This
This causes an argument to break out. Jay and Daisy start to head home, Daisy driving the car, when they hit and kill Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s secret lover. Daisy drives off, leaving Myrtle in the road. George Wilson, Myrtle's husband, identifies the car as being Jay Gatsby’s car. He decides to kill Jay, and shoots him in his mansion, thus killing him. We are introduced to many rich characters throughout the novel, many are very arrogant and vapid and do not treat others fairly. Jay and Daisy are both very vapid, and do not always think their actions through. Both are very disconnected from reality, and do not realize the impacts of their actions. Tom is arrogant and cruel, he feels discontempt for the lower class and the social climbers. Fitzgerald attempts to represent his resentment towards the upper class, which is why we are presented with this interesting idea of society and all the corruption and carelessness within it. Within the novel the characters live in a hypocritical world of riches, showing fake emotions and …show more content…
They have been deeply in love for many years, but Jay has created a god-like figure in his head. She is strongly represented by the color white, which can be interpreted as a pure and noble color, but in reality it represents Daisy’s superficiality and emptiness. Gatsby is in love with the idea of Daisy. He believes, even though she is married and has a child that he can woo her and make her his. She is the only thing he has left to acquire in his life, he has massive riches, a beautiful house and many cars, he just needs a woman to show off and flaunt. Gatsby believes he can recreate the past, which shows his naive and delusional side. He is very driven and persistent however and when he and Daisy meet for the first time in many years they instantly form a very strong connection once again, Daisy gives no thought about what this will mean to Tom or her child. Daisy and Gatsby are both motivated by wealth, that is one of the reasons why Daisy married Tom, and why Jay has gone into the bootlegging business. All Daisy has ever known is grand riches and an easy life, “”Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money - that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbias song of it. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl.” This