Forms Of Life In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The book, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, has some wonderful and extravagant lifestyles portrayed between the pages. The are examples of the many forms of life; the rich, high class: Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and Gatsby; The middle class: Nick; and the Lower, blue collar, working class: George, and Myrtle. They all have their stories of what they came from and what they have become. Some have moved down; others have moved up. This movement may be large, it may be petite, but in either way they have accomplished something for themselves. They have demonstrated that a man or a woman can and possibly will maneuver up to a higher standard of life, a higher social class.

Nick Carraway is precedent for someone who has fallen down the rungs, but has done this on his own accord. He grew up in Chicago in a wealthy family of fortuitous upbringing. He went to Yale. However, he decided to live on his own proceeding and finance himself. He went to New
He grew up in a dirt poor home with his poverish parents and nothing to live for. He still was able to make a name for himself, to change his destiny to one with dependable shelter and food. He started his long, and difficult journey by joining the military. His time of redemption came when he attended a party. He met a beautiful young lady there; someone that he would need to raise his own standards for. He was hiding in his officer uniform, a uniform that hid what he came from, his prior life. He decided to run away from his parents and do what he had set out to do, become a man of wealth. He saved an old millionaire, Dan Cody, cast out at sea; from that point on he decided to change himself, there and now. However, he still didn't have the money. He was able, though, to testify to the words found in The Mobility Myth,”through dedication and with a can-do spirit, climb the ladder of success