Comparing Religion And Capitalism In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Winston Churchill once said “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings[,,,]” In Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, religion and capitalism play a central role. Churchill states how capitalism shares blessings unevenly.

Capitalism according to Churchill is the unequal sharing of blessings. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, blessings are explicitly unequally shared. For example, Tom and Daisy Buchanan both had large sums of money before they were even married, they did not have to work to get what they desire. On the contrary, Gatsby has to work his way up from the bottom to his millions. Thus, Tom and Daisy were given a blessing Gatsby never had; money from the beginning. Fitzgerald also covers the question,
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