The book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is now read and uniquely interpreted by many high school students despite the fact that it was intended for 1920’s middle class adult men.
I think all three of the given topics are interesting to analyze but I took the sociological approach for reading The Great Gatsby because I think the book accurately reflects the values of each economic class during the 1920s. This book shows the carelessness and obsession with material items of the upper class, the respectable and well educated middle class, and the hard working but looked down upon lower class. The book also highlighted the differences between people from the midwest and the east coast. “I see now that this had been the story of the west…show more content… I learned a lot about the 20’s from this book and I really enjoyed it because it was a very unique tale but still somewhat relatable. The two characters in the story that I connected with the most were Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway. I can relate to Jordan because she seems more independent and logical unlike Daisy who is portrayed almost as the opposite of Jordan. Nick is a very relatable characters since he grew up in the midwest in an upper/middle class family and then went off to college at an ivy league on the east coast. Nick is also more of an observer and he seems to be consistently the calm and rational one of the group who gets thrown into dramatic situations but does not have drama of his own. “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (Fitzgerald 59). Nick sees himself as being a quiet neutral observer of all the chaos that happens thought the book and sometimes I feel that way too. Since Nick is writing the book he has complete control over what you think of him I find myself to have a similar personality and mindset to Nick so I like the fact that the book is written from his point of view. Due to me being in the middle class I could not really relate to Daisy, Gatsby or Tom. The way they were portrayed made them seem pathetic, carless, and delusional to me. I think the main thing that influenced how I
