The Great Gatsby is a novel that illustrates different classifications of American society during the 1920's. To create an interest in his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald created compulsive characters with different backgrounds and different strata in society. All of the main characters in this novel have their own individual life stories. Some of the characters acquired a huge amount of money from their parents, some became rich by working hard and some basically didn't have much money. Fitzgerald tries to illustrate to the reader that no matter how much money a person has or how the acquired the money, but the most significant thing is that money cannot buy person happiness. Although all the characters in "The Great Gatsby" acquire a different stratum in society, they are still alike each other.
The different classifications of society consist of, new money, old money, some money, and no money. There are two distinct types of wealthy people. The first types of distinct wealthy......
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