Stereotypes In The Great Gatsby And Bodega Dreams

Most cultures, beliefs, and appearances are all segregated by our society. We receive some sense of these examples from novels such as The Great Gatsby and Bodega Dreams. During the early 1920’s, The Great Gatsby takes place in Long Island, New York where the community mostly consist of rich white people. Then there’s Bodega Dreams which sets in the 1990’s in Spanish Harlem, New York where the community would mostly consist of latinos/latinas. The two novels present us with examples of how race can impact our society. In Bodega Dreams, students in Spanish Harlem are stereotyped by the teachers who teach in their community. Chino and Sapo attended middle school together where it consisted of only white teacher who believed in stereotypes of these kids ending up as delinquents. Early in book two, Tapia asked Sapo, Why didn't he do his homework? In which Sapo responded, “Mr. Blessington told me I was going to end up in jail, so why waste my time doing homework?”(Quinonez 88). The school’s teacher provide negativity to students making them the cause for these kids delinquencies. Another scene in Bodega Dreams, Blessington had Sapo in a headlock where Sapo responded which biting a chunk off of Blessington’s flesh. After Tapia caught knowledge of what happened she told Sapo, “Sapo, look at me. If you say he had you in a headlock,
One of the first conversations between Nick and Tom include Tom saying, “It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out for these races will have control of things”(Fitzgerald 13). We learn Tom is ethnocentric because he believes his race is more dominant than others. In the same page, Tom’s wife Daisy says, “believes that they should be physically punished for the color of their skin. Racism in this country was a big threat to people and hate fueled these words said by Tom and Daisy. When society makes blacks less than others people would believe it is ok to hurt a man impacting how us all would