Twentieth century of American, following by War World I , enjoyed a unprecedented levels of prosperity as the economic soar. While people growing wealthier, social and moral crisis begin to emerge as well. The polarized rich and poor created a completely different social scene in the different part of the state. F. Scott Fitzgerald's and Anzia Yezierska's novels showed reader how incurably unfair our society is and discuss the relation between material wealth and happiness. In the "Great Gatsby", Fitzgerald demonstrated the active of Classism in the 1920s American. Gatsby's love to Daisy is doomed to be one of those tragic love resulted from the different family background and lack of wealth. Gatsby was born James Gatz in a farm in North
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It seems that everybody has a chance to achieve wealth and success through its own effort. Gatsby is a example of a person with talent and effort who rise from the working class to the upper class. Sara in the "Bread Givers" is another great example of a person climb up to higher social ladder through education. Sara was born in a family of poor immigrant, a family barely has enough foods for everybody. Once Sara money caught her daughter leaving the potato peeling in the sink and shouted "you'd think potatoes grow free in the street. I eat out my heart, running from pushcart to pushcart, only to bargain down a penny on five pounds, and you cut away my flesh like a murder.(7)" Born and raise in a family like Born in the lower class, this, Sara's father marry off his three of his daughter to somebody they do not like. Seeing her sister ended up suffering, Sara determined to strive for a better life by her own. To afford education, Sara has to work part time and Study at the late night. In the school, she feels like a outsider, after "Noontime in the laundry. All the girls were together giggling and laughing and enjoying themselves as they ate their lunch. Only I was alone in the corner, cramming my grammar. A longing to joined the crowd and be happy with them came over me. …show more content…
People in the twentieth century seem to enchanted by material lifestyle. They judged people from what they consumed. Some people have an ill definition of "a better life." "A better life" is often related to the life of the upper class. Owning more property and material wealth seem to equal to owning a better life. However, does wealth and material really provides happiness? For Gatsby, The pursue of love drove him to throw endless parties and sell alcohol. Everything he did is just for one thing, winning back Daisy. Gatsby's dream is not a American dream because the grand mansion only make Gatsby lonelier. Made his fortune, Gatsby was still not happy without his
It seems that everybody has a chance to achieve wealth and success through its own effort. Gatsby is a example of a person with talent and effort who rise from the working class to the upper class. Sara in the "Bread Givers" is another great example of a person climb up to higher social ladder through education. Sara was born in a family of poor immigrant, a family barely has enough foods for everybody. Once Sara money caught her daughter leaving the potato peeling in the sink and shouted "you'd think potatoes grow free in the street. I eat out my heart, running from pushcart to pushcart, only to bargain down a penny on five pounds, and you cut away my flesh like a murder.(7)" Born and raise in a family like Born in the lower class, this, Sara's father marry off his three of his daughter to somebody they do not like. Seeing her sister ended up suffering, Sara determined to strive for a better life by her own. To afford education, Sara has to work part time and Study at the late night. In the school, she feels like a outsider, after "Noontime in the laundry. All the girls were together giggling and laughing and enjoying themselves as they ate their lunch. Only I was alone in the corner, cramming my grammar. A longing to joined the crowd and be happy with them came over me. …show more content…
People in the twentieth century seem to enchanted by material lifestyle. They judged people from what they consumed. Some people have an ill definition of "a better life." "A better life" is often related to the life of the upper class. Owning more property and material wealth seem to equal to owning a better life. However, does wealth and material really provides happiness? For Gatsby, The pursue of love drove him to throw endless parties and sell alcohol. Everything he did is just for one thing, winning back Daisy. Gatsby's dream is not a American dream because the grand mansion only make Gatsby lonelier. Made his fortune, Gatsby was still not happy without his