Class struggle in The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book about the romantic relationship between successful businessman Jay Gatsby, and former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The book is commonly used to reflect the American dream. The American dream is a set of ideals about the life of people in the United States. It is about a land in which every person, with the enough hard work, will reach success. Jay Gatsby is always idolized as the reflection of the American dream. Each person who has written about this metaphor, has explain various reasons why Jay Gatsby is the reflection of the American dream. Jay Gatsby has one enemy in his quest to be next to Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan her husband. Tom, is a wealthy former …show more content…
A self made businessman, with shady connections with wealthy people, who throws glamorous parties in his mansion in West Egg, the side of the island were all the newly rich live. Jay Gatsby background is a life of poverty in North Dakota. He met a wealthy sailor named Dan Cody. Gatsby established a friendship with him. After he passed he left money for Gatsby but he was unable to obtain it for family disputes (Fitzgerald 104). He enrolled in the Army to fight in World War I. At this time in an Army base in Louisville, he met Daisy, in which he had to lie about his background in order to interest Daisy (Fitzgerald 82). He left to war with the promise from Daisy of marriage when he came back (Fitzgerald 83). Nevertheless, Daisy married Tom in 1919, while Jay was studying in Oxford gaining an education (Fitzgerald 84). After he lost her, his whole purpose was to get her back. He went into organized crime and security fraud to achieve his wealth (Fitzgerald 143). The character who introduces him to the illegal side of business, is the fictional Meyer Wolfsheim. He served as his mentor.
Tom Buchanan sees any other ethnic group as inferior race. Even with people of his own ethnic background, he assumes he is above them. He does not hold any special talent in the accumulation of wealth. He had money inherited. He is an athlete, while never a professional one. He has a mistress. He abuses his wife, which treats her more as a trophy wife. …show more content…
Tom reveals the origins of the source of wealth of Gatsby. He reveals he is a criminal who has engage in organized crime activities. But deeply, he cannot opt with the fact Daisy is leaving him with a man who Tom thinks is lesser than him. The criminal activities are just a front in Tom’s argument. It represents how he would not allow any person lesser than him to hold what he holds dear, control Daisy. While Gatsby is German descent, he did not acquire money in the fashion Tom would consider proper. Nevertheless Tom only has money due to his inheritance. Meaning anyone who was born poor and is a self-made man, is still lesser than people who inherited money. Tom sees the American dream being in aristocratic nature. Gatsby represents the American dream of a self-made man. Tom stayed with Daisy and run away to protect Daisy involvement in an homicide. In other words he won over Gatsby by retaining
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book about the romantic relationship between successful businessman Jay Gatsby, and former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The book is commonly used to reflect the American dream. The American dream is a set of ideals about the life of people in the United States. It is about a land in which every person, with the enough hard work, will reach success. Jay Gatsby is always idolized as the reflection of the American dream. Each person who has written about this metaphor, has explain various reasons why Jay Gatsby is the reflection of the American dream. Jay Gatsby has one enemy in his quest to be next to Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan her husband. Tom, is a wealthy former …show more content…
A self made businessman, with shady connections with wealthy people, who throws glamorous parties in his mansion in West Egg, the side of the island were all the newly rich live. Jay Gatsby background is a life of poverty in North Dakota. He met a wealthy sailor named Dan Cody. Gatsby established a friendship with him. After he passed he left money for Gatsby but he was unable to obtain it for family disputes (Fitzgerald 104). He enrolled in the Army to fight in World War I. At this time in an Army base in Louisville, he met Daisy, in which he had to lie about his background in order to interest Daisy (Fitzgerald 82). He left to war with the promise from Daisy of marriage when he came back (Fitzgerald 83). Nevertheless, Daisy married Tom in 1919, while Jay was studying in Oxford gaining an education (Fitzgerald 84). After he lost her, his whole purpose was to get her back. He went into organized crime and security fraud to achieve his wealth (Fitzgerald 143). The character who introduces him to the illegal side of business, is the fictional Meyer Wolfsheim. He served as his mentor.
Tom Buchanan sees any other ethnic group as inferior race. Even with people of his own ethnic background, he assumes he is above them. He does not hold any special talent in the accumulation of wealth. He had money inherited. He is an athlete, while never a professional one. He has a mistress. He abuses his wife, which treats her more as a trophy wife. …show more content…
Tom reveals the origins of the source of wealth of Gatsby. He reveals he is a criminal who has engage in organized crime activities. But deeply, he cannot opt with the fact Daisy is leaving him with a man who Tom thinks is lesser than him. The criminal activities are just a front in Tom’s argument. It represents how he would not allow any person lesser than him to hold what he holds dear, control Daisy. While Gatsby is German descent, he did not acquire money in the fashion Tom would consider proper. Nevertheless Tom only has money due to his inheritance. Meaning anyone who was born poor and is a self-made man, is still lesser than people who inherited money. Tom sees the American dream being in aristocratic nature. Gatsby represents the American dream of a self-made man. Tom stayed with Daisy and run away to protect Daisy involvement in an homicide. In other words he won over Gatsby by retaining