The Great Gatsby accurately portrays the rich during the booming 1920’s. The readers experience the upper class through Fitzgerald’s vivid descriptions of an almost dreamlike world. Tom Buchanan was born wealthy into a Midwestern family. Although given the opportunity to be well-educated, he was a former

Fitzgerald uses Jordan Baker as a representative of the “new woman” of the 1920’s. She is fully-liberated, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is presented as a dishonest person who will do anything to win, including alleged cheating in a professional golf tournament. Her amorality is a bit more cynical than the other West Eggers’; she adopts whatever morals seem to fit her current situation. The shallowness and carelessness she possesses are apparent throughout the course of the novel.

college football star. His days are spent entertaining himself and his wife Daisy. Tom is a presumptuous brute of a man who uses both his physical and financial “superiority” to get what he wants. Through him, Fitzgerald depicts the upper class as being uncaring to the plight of the lower classes.

Like the flower for which she is named, Daisy is delicate and lovely. Also a member of the elite upper class, she was born wealthy, and married wealthy. Though this can be perceived as shallowness, it was typical behavior for the upper class woman. Wealthy married wealthy. Daisy is in love with money, ease, and material luxury. She is capable of affection (she seems truly fond of Nick and occasionally seems to honestly love Gatsby), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant da

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