Great Gatsby Carelessness

When you think of wealthy people what comes to mind? Donald Trump, Richard Sherman, LeBron James, or even The Queen of England? We as bystanders only see what the media wants us to see whether it’s good or bad. In reality we know nothing about wealthy people and what their money sometimes does to people. In the book The Great Gatsby one of the ideas or themes of the book is sometimes the upper class is carelessness and shallow.
As you may know Nick and Gatsby live in West Egg, where the people have been rich for a long time. Tom and Daisy however live on at East Egg, where the people are young and newly rich. And where West Egg lacks in class and showiness, the pink suit, they strive in heart and care. In west Egg however they strive in class, Jordan and Daisy`s white dresses, they lack in heart and are careless inconsiderate tormenters who are so used to using their money as a shield from their minds so that the never worry about hurting others. As …show more content…
When we first met Jordan she was with Daisy when Nick went over for dinner in the first chapter, and the first impression I had of her was up tight. The book says she held her chin up like she was balancing something on it and that she paid no attention to Nick when he walked in. As we saw on page eight, “Her chin raised a little, as if it were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall. If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it...” Her attitude off the bat was I`m better than you because I`m a hot shot golfer. Later in the book she is talked about how she has to have the upper hand on people and would lie and cheat to get on top. Now I’m not at all saying that striving for the highlife is bad but when you are undercutting and hurting people along the way it’s not right. I believe that when people see dollar signs they forget how to treat others with respect and dignity and just go after the money regardless of who they