Social Status In The Great Gatsby

In the late 1920’s people wanted to live the American Dream. Everyone desired to have the perfect marriage, big and fancy house, and have all the money in the world, but some people had to start from scratch to achieve the dream. In Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby, takes place in New York, New York. Jay Gatsby started from nothing in North Dakota but later discovered what wealth was like and wanted to live that life. Jay Gatsby was a major for the military but was sent off to war, leaving behind his beautiful girlfriend, Daisy. Fitzgerald illustrates the emptiness in relationships driven by social status and class.
Throughout the novel social status and class are the major themes displayed by the variety of parties between East and West egg. Daisy and Tom Buchanan live in East egg, also known as the “fashionable of the two”. Daisy and Tom are of the upper class and everything that the represents
The relationships in this novel is very complex and disturbing. Daisy wanted to marry Jay but he was leaving for war and wanted to be with a rich man. Tom and Daisy decided to get married but Tom isn't loyal to Daisy. “ Tom the fact that he “had some woman in New York” was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book”(Fitzgerald 20). Nick is explaining that Tom has woman that he can hook up with anywhere in the state. Daisy knows that Tom is cheating but she Doesn't want to leave the wealth and luxury Tom provides. One of Tom's main mistress is Myrtle Wilson. “Sitting on Tom’s lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people...and I went out to buy some at the drugstore on the corner and when I came back they were gone”(Fitzgerald 29). Daisy knows the affairs that Toms is having with another woman and is not very happy about it. If Daisy would have waited for Jay to get back from the war, should would be living a more enjoyable life with a person that truly loves