Social Class in ‘The Great Gatsby’: Women’s Reverberations in the Jazz Age
Words: 667 Pages: 2 1496Contrasts and Confluences: The Intertwined Fates of Gatsby's Women and Their Social Ladder The three female characters came from different social groups. Daisy and Jordan both came from the highest social class: old money, the socialites, which highly contrasts the more grounded lifestyle that Daisy’s cousin, Nick, lived. Myrtle, however, belonged to the working social class and was unhappily wed to George Wilson, a spiritless man who owned the gas station in the Valley of Ashes, a place that symbolizes […]