In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald explains in many ways how the upper class, are different then the lower class. The lower-class is not as privileged as wealthy people because they do not have as much money to do whatever they want with. The lower class has to work hard to earn money, unlike wealthy people. You can obviously tell the upper class from the lower class because wealthy people display their money through their appearance.
Fitzgerald lived in a time when wealth and indulgence prospered in the cities, when the upper class looked down upon all other parts of society as being inferior and insignificant. Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is as much a part of its age as a brilliant dramatization of the social and economic corruption of the Jazz Age, marked by
prohibition, and gangs. …
