The Role Of Aristocrats In The Great Gatsby

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The Jazz Age and The Roaring Twenties were a time of abundant wealth, experiments in lifestyles, music, and more leisure time. The Great Gatsby takes place in the 1920’s and is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young graduate from Yale, who came to New York to learn about bonds. Nick resides in the West Egg subdivision of long island, which is an unfashionable wealthy area of people who have gaudy displays of their riches on the weekends. Unlike the residents of West Egg, East Egg residents have hade their money for a number of years and have obtained a certain prestige, which others wish they had. Through this rivalry F. Scoot Fitzgerald portrays the negative connotation associated with aristocrats in The Great Gatsby. The communal differences…show more content…
But Daisy not wanting to look like a West Egger didn’t come to any of Gatsby “gaudy, glittering parties” (Witkoski 2) for a while because she was afraid of having “wild, improbable rumors circulate” (Witkoski 2) about her. This reveals a little glimpse of how daisy thinks and how she is a product of the social classes. Nick is the most rational character in the novel, and by the end he lets the reader know how he truly feels about each of the other main characters. After Nick holds a small funeral for Gatsby he moves back to the Midwest. He “relinquishes his creative role and his work becomes the object of his contemplation” (Bevilaqua 54) he reflects over all the main characters and tell us “they were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness…” (Fitzgerald 170) this shows us how Nick truly feels and relates us to him more. The discernable difference between East Egg and West Egg are that of attitude, wealth, and experience. These distinctions represent the differences in social classes present in America during the Jazz Age. The adverse ramifications of the wealthy embody the institution show what effect they had on the American Dream during the Roaring
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