Social Commentary The Great Gatsby

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He tries to emphasize the theme by the means of character analysis and several scenes.
The Great Gatsby is one of the examples of the social commentary, which talks about the true state and condition of something that is happening. In creating some of distinct society(old money; new money; no money). Fitzgerald tries to have big emphasized to American life before that humans become more eager to become rich persons. In the story, Fitzgerald presents two distinct type of a wealthy person, the one is the old money and another is the new money. In old money, the person seems rich as before. They do not need to work, as it should because they are already rich. They live their life as a pleasure and all just for satisfaction. They spend their life

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