Class

• 'all the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' ch1
• ‘two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face.’ Nick on Tom Buchanan, ch1

  Eyes = a motif

  Physical brutish nature - his class status
• GG: 'i've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.' Daisy ch1 creates a sense of boredom and 'standstill' restlessness of the bourgeois status

  Unfulfillment of wealth
• GG shows the clash of NYC societies through conflict between Gatsby, Tom and Myrtle who represent new money, aristocracy and the working class

  
  

  ARITS shows the clash of class through Linder and the Younger family, representing the AA struggle to gain middle class acceptance , to transgress the working class status that has been applied to them dating back to slavery.
• GG: FItzgerald uses G to present an otherworldly, godlike quality can only be given to those not born into the elite, ‘it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.’ ch3
• 'reclining against the mantelpeice in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease.' ch5


  Gatsbys facade shakes at the meeting of daisy
• ARITS: Walter's spending of the money tests the spiritual and psychological mettle of each family member, the despair at him spending such money reflects it's significance in a working class family.
• GG: his obstacles to his dream include his 'new money' status, being 'Mr nobody from nowhere'
• GG: Toms attitude to Gatsby highlights the snobbery towards those of new money and shows F criticizing Americas class system
• GG: Myrtles WC status is inescapable, illustrated with the '[mingling of]her thick, dark blood with the dust'
• GG: applying a Marxist lens allows M's death to be read as a metaphor for class oppression
• GG: Nicks epiphany that the UC are 'careless' monsters structures the message of morality lost with the pursuit of wealth.