In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the people in the high class New York society focus solely on how they are perceived by others in their social class. They lead a life of wealth and glamor and are much less concerned with anything other than how educated one is, or how much money they are making. Jay Gatsby has fallen into this social trap, but not by choice. In order to regain the love his once had, Gatsby conforms himself to the surrounding society, which along with his sense of innocence, will ultimately be the cause of his death. In this New York society, there are two main wealthy classes.
No one is our world has the right to order people and treat people in a mean manner. However in the novel, the higher up in the hierarchy then the more respected you are. For example, Eddie Russett is a “red” and in the beginning of the novel a “green” woman demands him to fetch her things, just because a “red” is lower in the hierarchy than “green.” In our current world, is immoral to treat one bad based on skin colour, hair colour etc. This makes the reader think about how we treat others and compare them to the people in “Shades of
We have troubles you’ve never even heard of. You want to know something?’ She looked me straight in the eye.’Things are rough all over.’” At the end of the book he gets that everyone is human, no matter how much hatred they have in them. He grasps that even the Socs have lots of problems, like being cool to the point of not feeling everything. He used to think that they didn’t have any problems, but now it dawns on him that they do. “ even if they did have their own troubles… Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I’d consider myself lucky.
Some nobles (William Stanley) were unhappy with this reward as they saw it as an empty reward, they wanted land or money instead. Henry VII did not appoint many new nobles or promote many nobles through his time. This meant that if you were promoted in Henry’s reign it was seen as a massive honour. This benefitted Henry economically also as he could take 100% of the money from the land instead of a small percentage that the nobles would have given him. Henry managed to consolidate his throne well by overthrowing his opposition.
The men who view him this way are totally different from each other. For example, George plays the role of the family member to Lennie, which at times makes him act cruel towards Lennie. At first, Crooks views Lennie as just another one of the workers who treats him badly then later realizes he is a nice and caring man. Curley on the other hand strongly dislikes big men and being that Lennie is a big guy, Curley never gives Lennie a chance to be friends. Lennie is viewed by s few characters in the novel and it affects their characterization.
She does not do this right away. But through time she learns not to prejudge people. For example when everyone else prejudges Tom Robinson, she doesn't. Everyone says he is a bad man because
He “ranged freely over music, literature, art, and other subjects,” but could not agree with what was taking place at Coney Island. Critics like him who had visited the island could not deny the fun environment, but felt that when people arrived a Coney Island, they lost their mind and moral values. Not only were they concerned about human character; they were also concerned about the economy as a whole. Coney Island was changing America “from a ‘pain economy,’ where scarcity of resources demanded a struggle for subsistence, to a ‘pleasure economy,’ in which abundance was potentially available to all” (Kasson 90). People would avoid sin to be sure not to be punished by unemployment and bad economic standings, but without this fear, it was unknown what citizens of the United States would start acting like.
Dolphus Raymond is objected to this discrimination because of his choice to have relations with an African American woman. The people in Maycomb judge Dolphus Raymond for having children with the African American woman and think poorly of his decisions. To avoid confrontation with anyone as to why he chooses to live his life like that, he walks around drinking a beverage from a brown paper bag and sways when he walks. Scout, Jem, and Dill have a conversation with him and realize that he is not an alcoholic, he just pretends to be to avoid people from questioning his actions. Aunt Alexandria too shows this behavior when Scout asks if Walter Cunningham can come over for lunch.
Gatsby on the other hand is rich but was poor so he was raised with morals. He would never do that to Daisy and loves her so much. Nick is just disgusted in Tom for how he is. He doesn’t understand how Daisy and Tom stay together just because they are rich. He believes you should be together for love and happiness not for just being comfortable.
Even though Daisy is in love with Gatsby she marries Tom “because [Gatsby] was poor and [Daisy] was tired of waiting for [Gatsby] (137).” This shows that for Gatsby to accomplish his dream and be happy, he has to have money. Because of Daisy’s status she cannot or will not marry a person of a lower status, of which Gatsby had been until he made all of his new money. In conclusion, Gatsby’s dream and the American dream share some aspects, but they are not the same thing. The American dream is entirely focused on earning money and status to progress and change what one was in the past. Gatsby on the other hand is living in the past and cannot be happy with moving forward.