Madeline R. answered • 12/13/20
English Teacher
The book, The Great Gatsby, was written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. It clarifies the general public we used to live in, and the general public we live in at this point. It speaks to numerous parts of our advanced society, examples of this being abundance issues and cash, individuals joining an altogether different society and attempting to adjust to it, and a partition of classes. Jay Gatsby was a boy that had ascended in a helpless family, and a devastated city. He endeavored to get one of the high-class individuals, and perhaps the most extravagant individual. Accordingly, Gatsby was not acknowledged or affirmed by those who grew up rich, such as Tom Buchanan. Moreover, The Great Gatsby speaks to how abundance and force change individuals' characteristics and qualities. Money and power influence numerous people in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald has people rise in social classes and flaunt it, such as Gatsby. This rise modifies morals, which we see happen with Tom, Daisy, and Myrtles.
Numerous individuals are brought into the world in devastated family, and they climbed the socioeconomic ladder. Jay Gatsby was brought into the world in a helpless family, however, he worked hard, and became wealthy and powerful. The influence and abundance that he had earned caused him to ascend into high society, and become one of the most extravagant in the city of New York. “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited—they went there” (Fitzgerald 45). Gatsby held a gathering at his home, and numerous people attended, whether they received an invite or not. This shows how Gatsby had ascended to get one of the most extravagant and notable individuals that everybody needs to go to him.
Furthermore, characters like Gatsby had a reason to live, and that was to flaunt what they have before everybody. In The Great Gatsby, someone said that “‘They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before. After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming pool, and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers” (Fitzgerald 99). Jay Gatsby had assembled everyone in the city to go to his home, and he began to show them his garments and large house, gloating. This shows how abundance and influence tragically affected Gatsby to where he began to feel like everybody is under him, and he began to boast about his riches.
Wealth and luxury didn't only influence Jay Gatsby, it influenced other characters, such as Myrtles, Tom, and Daisy. Luxury had affected and changed their morals. In The Great Gatsby, it is said that “[t]hey were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (Fitzgerald 191). Tom and Daisy were hitched couples that were associated with a mishap. They carelessly disregarded the homicide they committed, and left with their cash to make the most of their life. This shows how Tom and Daisys' ethics have been adversely influenced by cash where they got narrow-minded and just thought about themselves. Similarly, Myrtle undermined her better half to accomplish her longings. In the book, Myrtle shows this when someone says “‘I told that boy about the ice.’ Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. ‘These people! You have to keep after them all the time” (Fitzgerald 35). Myrtle undermined her significant other, Goerge, in light of the fact that she needed to be with a man that was rich and carried on with a lavish life. This shows how cash and extravagance negatively affected Myrtle to where she thought about herself and demolished somebody's life (Goerge Wilson).
At long last, wealth and power influence humans in an assortment of ways. Extravagance may either positively affect individuals, or negatively effect them. Positive effects may bring individuals to utilize their cash for beneficial things and backing others. On the negative side, they may utilize it to display and gloat, like Gatsby. Cash changes individuals' ethics either emphatically or contrarily. Additionally, cash can allow individuals to ascend in social classes. Sadly, it could cause them to get their end.
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