In the classic story, The Great Gatsby one main character Jay Gatsby has achieved a major accomplishment in his life by reaching the social status of being wealthy. However later in the story, his actual social level exposed him as poverty-stricken. At the time, it resulted in an explosive augment with Tom asking questions on how he obtained money, and it did not come from old money a term used to imply inheritance. The phrase old money used in society as a way to separate even the wealthy into certain categories old money from the family and new found wealth, for instance, Oprah Winfrey become rich from the production of her talk shows. This statue quote suggested the individual with old money acts with a high level of predominance than other
