High social class in the 1920’s consisted of millionaires as well as rich people. At that time, the upper class could truly do what they wanted; money allowed them to pay people off. Being rich in 1920’s was impressive because everyone wanted to be upper class but only a few made it. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates the behavior of his contemporary upper class through Tom and Daisy. The behavior of the upper-class that Fitzgerald writes about is similar to the behavior of the upper class today. In the novel and today, wealthy people get away with treating both classes badly, with selfish behavior, and with not learning from their actions. Fitzgerald’s novel is still relevant today because his representation of
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One example of this is when, at the auto repair shop, Tom tells Mr.Wilson why his car is not ready to be sold - the mechanic is still working on it. When Mr. Wilson inquires, ¨Works pretty slow, don’t he?¨ Tom replies coldly,¨’No, he doesn’t… And if you feel that way about it, maybe I’d better sell it somewhere else after all¨ (28). This shows that Tom is taunting Mr. Wilson and Myrtle because he knows they need the money, but he is holding power over them by teasing Mr. Wilson with the sale of the car. He could sell it to someone else and could really care less about Mr. Wilson’s struggles as a lower class citizen. In his words, Tom is implying, “I am rich and I am in a higher class than you, so I can treat you however I choose.” We see this same attitude in the upper class society today. An example of this is the way the billionaire Donald Trump disrespects women and thinks he can take back what he said with no consequences just because he is rich. Like Tom and Daisy, Trump does not seem to think about or care about the consequences of his words when he insults people, like when he said that “women are like dogs slob and disgusting animals.” Even though Trump said this he still has many supporter and his business has not been affected. He could could care less how his words affected women in …show more content…
The wealthy continue to try to use their money to get rid of problems rather than take responsibility for them. Whenever a celebrity gets in trouble for doing something wrong they just pay a fine instead of learning their lesson and going to jail like most people. Evidence of this is when Justin Bieber partisipated in an iligal drag race while under the influence. He was charged with the serirous crime of Driving Under the Infludnce. Instead, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges and had to go to anger managment class and had to make a $50,000 donation. Gatsby and Bieber both got out of going to jail by paying money.
Throughout the book, Fitzgerald uses Daisy and Tom to represent the upper class by how they treated people, how much they loved their possessions and how they never took responsibility for their actions. Daisy and Tom in the book never treated anyone very nice. They love their possession and love to show off everything that they own and when Daisy something super absurd she hides and lets another person clean up and also to allow Gatsby to be shot instead of confessing to hitting Myrtle.
The book the Great Gatsby today still represents upper class during the 1920’s links today 's wealthy people
Fitzgerald’s novel is still relevant today because his representation of the upper-class during 1920’s links to today’s wealthy people in their attitude toward everyone else, their possessions, and how they
One example of this is when, at the auto repair shop, Tom tells Mr.Wilson why his car is not ready to be sold - the mechanic is still working on it. When Mr. Wilson inquires, ¨Works pretty slow, don’t he?¨ Tom replies coldly,¨’No, he doesn’t… And if you feel that way about it, maybe I’d better sell it somewhere else after all¨ (28). This shows that Tom is taunting Mr. Wilson and Myrtle because he knows they need the money, but he is holding power over them by teasing Mr. Wilson with the sale of the car. He could sell it to someone else and could really care less about Mr. Wilson’s struggles as a lower class citizen. In his words, Tom is implying, “I am rich and I am in a higher class than you, so I can treat you however I choose.” We see this same attitude in the upper class society today. An example of this is the way the billionaire Donald Trump disrespects women and thinks he can take back what he said with no consequences just because he is rich. Like Tom and Daisy, Trump does not seem to think about or care about the consequences of his words when he insults people, like when he said that “women are like dogs slob and disgusting animals.” Even though Trump said this he still has many supporter and his business has not been affected. He could could care less how his words affected women in …show more content…
The wealthy continue to try to use their money to get rid of problems rather than take responsibility for them. Whenever a celebrity gets in trouble for doing something wrong they just pay a fine instead of learning their lesson and going to jail like most people. Evidence of this is when Justin Bieber partisipated in an iligal drag race while under the influence. He was charged with the serirous crime of Driving Under the Infludnce. Instead, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges and had to go to anger managment class and had to make a $50,000 donation. Gatsby and Bieber both got out of going to jail by paying money.
Throughout the book, Fitzgerald uses Daisy and Tom to represent the upper class by how they treated people, how much they loved their possessions and how they never took responsibility for their actions. Daisy and Tom in the book never treated anyone very nice. They love their possession and love to show off everything that they own and when Daisy something super absurd she hides and lets another person clean up and also to allow Gatsby to be shot instead of confessing to hitting Myrtle.
The book the Great Gatsby today still represents upper class during the 1920’s links today 's wealthy people
Fitzgerald’s novel is still relevant today because his representation of the upper-class during 1920’s links to today’s wealthy people in their attitude toward everyone else, their possessions, and how they