The social classes in the Great Gatsby are quite different because of the character’s living situations and their want to move up in the social world. The characters greatly want to move into a higher social class but there are many obstacles that tend to stop them. There are places that separate the three social classes. West Egg is where the people that recently came into money live. East Egg is where the people that were born into money live. The Valley of Ashes is where the people that have very little money live. The towns of West Egg, East Egg, and The Valley of Ashes separate the physically separate the social classes of The Great Gatsby.
One example of the separation of social classes is how Myrtle Wilson was in a low social class (Valley of Ashes) but she
Yet even though the characters of The Great Gatsby do leave their towns at some points they always end up where they started from or they ended up dead. They weren’t meant to leave their social classes in the first place. It was as if they were playing with fire and got burnt. Fitzgerald was trying to show how hard it is to fit into a place that you don’t belong. That is how Fitzgerald separated the social classes by the town that the characters lived in.
Gatsby also wanted to be in East Egg. He had money but it wasn’t the kind of money needed to belong in East Egg. He wasn’t born onto money, instead he had to work to get it. The people in East Egg were so stuck up that something so small as having to work for your money separated social classes. “He’
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