Who Is The Rich In The Great Gatsby

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Are the Rich Different?
Who would ever want to be rich? Having all the money in the world and living the dream life of everyone! People dream of having the rich luxurious life, but is it really worth it? In The Great
Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, shows the reader the life of very rich and very poor people: Two very different and difficult lives to live. In the book, mon
Racicky 2 meets Wilson in the Valley of Ashes at, “Repairs. George B. Wilson. Cars Bought and Sold”
(29). Mr. Wilson is always very busy and is not aware they his wife is cheating on him. The poor, like Mr. Wilson are so busy that they have a hard time keeping up with the demand of the workforce. The rich like Jay and Tom, have struggle to find fun things to do because they have
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Also, having a work ethic is very important. A work ethic will make you proud of what you do as a human and will push you to be the best at what you do. Hard workers have a great mindset and have a lot of willpower to get a project done. A rich person like Gatsby and Tom pay to have everything done for them. They order people around like they have slaves. Jay
Gatsby wont even go get a ringing phone call like said “If anyone phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool” (168-169). This was when Gatsby went for the last swim of his life.
He was waiting for the phone call from Daisy but while he was swimming he was shot by Mr.
Wilson. Gatsby and Tom don't have to work for their money like Mr. WIlson and Myrtle. Mr.
Wilson and Myrtle live in the Valley of Ashes where there isn't very much money. Mr. Wilson is a very hard worker even though he doesn't get paid very much. In the movie and as the book explains,he is almost never clean because he is always getting dirty from work. Mr. Wilson is also a lot less demanding to other people and often has a lot more respect than the rich. The rich are very disrespectful because they get to do whatever they want since nobody can

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