How Do You Interpret the Visit by Mr Sloan in 'the Great Gatsby'

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How do you interpret visit by Mr Sloane, Tom Buchanan and the Lady to Gatsby’s house? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ has been so cleverly written that there are many different interpretations at different sections of the novel. One section that can hold vast amounts of interpretations is in Chapter 6 where we see a visit to Gatsby’s house by a part of three. In Chapter 6, we see Nick seeing Gatsby for the first time in ‘several weeks’ when he stops by at Gatsby’s house and surprisingly finds Tom Buchanan there who has stopped for a drink with Mr Sloane who was an ‘insufferable’ East Egg male who exemplify everything that is repellent about the ‘newly rich’ with the other member of their party only being described as a ‘pretty woman’ or ‘the lady’ objectifying her. I think that this highlights 1920’s relationships in America with men being with several women despite whether they’re married or not highlighting the corruption in 1920’s America. I think in this chapter highlights and explores the theme of social class which is shown by illustrating the contempt with which the aristocratic habitants of East Egg regard Gatsby. We see this particularly well when Buchanan says; “Doesn’t he know she doesn’t want him?” This shows that Gatsby doesn’t realise the insincerity of the invitation causing Tom to be contemptuous of his lack of social grace making him critical of Daisy visiting Gatsby. It also shows that Mr Sloane doesn’t want him to accompany them because of his social status and I think that this shows the importance of social class in 1920’s America. It shows the clear segregation of the old and newly rich. Although it appears that he has equal wealth, he is lacking their social nuance and easy aristocratic grace. This causes them to mock and despise him emphasising the division between East and West egg and there are class separations even among
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