Fitzgerald Representation of the poor in The Great Gatsby (Essay Sample)

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Fitzgerald representation of the poor in The Great Gatsby.
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents issues related to economy and social status in the early 20th century, a period when America was an aspiring super power with an enormous potential to become the world’s wealthiest country. Notably, “the rich get richer and the poor get – children” sums up the novel as money is presented as the prime motivator in the relationships and outcomes of the characters (Fitzgerald 102). The novel reveals the struggle of individuals within the middle- and lower-class and holds that only those with enormous wealth command respect and honor in society regardless of the resources of their income. The narrator uses bright colors to describe the life of the rich as opposed to the “ash-grey” for the working class and maintains that the poor ought to remain submissive and optimistic in a midst of oppression and repression from the rich.
Much as The Great Gatsby enters on white upper-class millionaires and flappers, the narrator provides an insight into the poor and neglected members of the society. The working classes and immigrants have to endure the oppression of those above them in the social order. It is worth noting that class divides are stressed in the novel given each character’s demarcated areas of residence.