Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, shows the difference between social classes through the use of geography. Full of hopelessness and dull lives, the valley of ashes defines the wasteland that they live in and the way their lives have become a waste of time in the end, since they will never achieve anything because of the corruption of money. Unfashionable and vulgar, the West Egg represents the way of life for new money. They overdo the attempt to imitate others and cause people to know they fake their lives. In contrast to the West Egg, the people who live in the East Egg have high social class, good taste in everything, but have many flaws.
A simple example of this is the concept of that evil, deceptive tax cut. That same party will tell you that the only way to make money from taxes is to raise them until every rich patron of this country is paying an arm and a leg just to stay alive. Not only does this punish the rich for being rich, it is a form of socialism though it's redistribution of money in an attempt to reward the idle for doing nothing, and punish the busy for endeavoring to make money. Doesn't make much sense does
The claim that Paine makes that would be most feeble today is that America is a place where the poor are privileged and the rich are not. The United States is increasingly becoming a place where to be poor is to be underprivileged. Though it only sounds logical that a poor person should be underprivileged, it is also true that a country should be judged by the way it treats its worst off citizens. In America today, we have Government officials, many of them Republican, who are vehemently opposed to public programs that benefit the poor. Meanwhile, the richest Americans continue to expand their wealth.
Amber Baskett Mrs. Vincent AP Lang/ Comp (6) 29 October 2013 “The Seemingly “Great” Gatsby” The American Dream is not what it seems. In the 1920’s, the American Dream was nothing but an idea of materialistic wealth and objective pleasures. The desire for the American Dream represented the demise of America, where hard work and good ethics were abandoned for wealth and the good life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a self-made man who started out with no money— only a plan for achieving is dream. He is so blinded by his luxurious possessions that he does not see that money cannot buy love or happiness.
In the 1920’s, one of the most evident factors of the decline of the American Dream is due to materialism. Fitzgerald conveys that this was the time where the original ideas of the American Dream; hope, and discovering was being substitute into a materialistic version. Nevertheless, if you “seen everything, and done everything,” the author suggests materialism can blur the way we think and live our daily life. Fitzgerald presents a major flaw that is seen in all ‘old money;’ viewing people as objects. The ‘old money’ are people who had their wealth for generations and has the higher status than the ‘new money,’ who are people that recently earned their fortune.
The American Dream In the article Inequality and the American Dream published in the Economist, the author Paul Krugman proposes to solve the disparity in our economic system by increasing taxes on the wealthy. The real reason for this disparity is because of our economic system. Our government is based on capitalism that allows economic freedom in doing business without government control. The American dream shells from this system that promises personal gain and prosperity to those who work hard. This is encouraged further by our selfish human nature to have great things for ourselves.
The most prominent characters are Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy, handsome man who lives in a large mansion located on the West Egg. In contrast with him is Myrtle Wilson. She was a poor, average looking woman who lives in a town called Valley of Ashes located between New York and West Eggs. Both Gatsby and Myrtle have the same American Dream of striving to be a wealthy, old money like the people on the East Eggs.
When unions were strong we had the greatest period of equitable shared prosperity in American history. Now we have reached the point that salaries of top executives are out of sight and real income for working families are declining. Corporate Executives’ has figured out a system to increasing each other’s salaries. They visit each other while periodically and raise the notion their salaries deserve more. This is not
As a result of this I am going to be looking specifically at the changes in America that took place in the 1920’s and how these affected people’s everyday lives. Before presenting any of the evidence my own opinion is that the 1920’s for a lot of people were a very good time to live, however for a lot of poorer people, the 1920’s boom only made them poorer and the rich poor divide only got bigger. Firstly, I am going to be looking at the people who benefited from the economic boom, or as some people would call, the winners of the 1920’s. After the war, the Americans emerged victorious and this gave them a rosy outlook on the opportunities they could create for themselves and gave them more confidence that they were strong as individuals and as a nation. The main change that happened in the 1920’s was the growth of industry.
It’s not on the same playing field; the wealthier has an advantage over the poor. In the gilded era the capitalisms ran out of control all for making money. Marx is best known for criticizing capitalism. In his concept, he states the rich gets richer by the theft of labor. Laborer is exploited by their suppressors.