Examples Of Marxism In The Great Gatsby

While it is true that the marxism and psychoanalytic criticisms also suit The Great Gatsby, they do not suit it as strongly as feminism. The psychoanalytic criticism circles around the perplexing romantic relationships portrayed in the novel and discusses the pattern of psychological behavior’s stemming from the characters fear of intimacy that ultimately results in emotional devastation. While it does have some good points, I believe that it is the least fitting for the story. Not because I honestly just don’t understand some of it, but because it only talks about their relationships and nothing else. Marxism, on the other hand, is a much stronger candidate as it plunges into the much more perplexing and clandestine meaning behind the story