THE GREAT GATSBY

The 1920s change American society, people starts to wear less clothe and automobiles and radio came and made peoples life a lot more effective. During the 1920s their were riches and poor , there were New Money , Old Money , Some Money, and No Money. In the book the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald did a very good job at describing just how much difference their were between the rich and the poor.There are many scenes in the book that are very comparable to the real time of the 1920s, all can be compared from the way the two different social work , setting , and living style. In the book Fitzgerald give the reader a clear view on Gatsby's wealthy,and Tom too. From my point of view those chracter have very little similarities, on their personalities, social class, and from all those you call reflect it to the real 1920s age where the rich was richer then ever and the poor to the tippy toe. The Rich people during the 1920s was richer then ever, big houses nice cars, had everything they wanted. In the Great Gatsby nick's friends who lived in the East Egg was rich, and the way Fitzgerald describe what the house look like give you a general picture of just how rich they really were. In book it says “Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The Lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens.” from the description you can see they have a very rich living style and the way they decorate their house. The rich have a very different living style comparing to other class people. For example, their parties are very fancy,exotic, and expensive. In the Great Gatsby, when Gatsby himself had a party the way Fitzgerald wrote it like if it was one of the biggest events in the history, “On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.” During real time of the 1920s ,the Rockefeller family was always paying tax, so they had to open businesses to keep the money flow, such as banks, insurance, and real estate. So the reality and the way how Fitzgerald describe the rich were not quite the same. In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald did very good at describing “the roaring twenties”.He used word to describing the years after World War I, He used the setting in his book to reflect the corruption and crim and the time. He used words to the difference between rich and poors, and the high and low social classes.The location that he described shows that money class has very different residential areas.”twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated by a courtesy bay, just out into long island sound. An arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particualr exept shape and size.”From this quote Fizgerald give us a good example explaining that if you are rich you pretty much have to choice to live far away from the city.Good view , away from trouble and traffic in the city.The narrator nick lives in west which was the less fashionable of the two.”his small eyesore of a house is next to the mansion of mystery man jay Gatsby.” There is a huge difference between the two.During the 20s money was everything,you had the money you make the calls.One of the improtant thing was that Fitzgerald did not just use the setting as a surrounding effect, he used the setting to reveal characters,tells the reader what kind of person they are, and often used the weather to match the tone of a critcial event in the story.The settings in the Great Gatsby are quite accruate to the reality, for example the eggs are for more wealthy people, and the vailly of ashes and new york city are for the more lower class people.