Social Class Flashcards
Tom, old money, hates the new money people
‘A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers’
Wealth = advantage
‘They were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed things up… then retreated back into their money’
Nick realises the traditional moral system that the east lacks, has shaped Tom and Daisy into unlikable people
“Perhaps we possess some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern Life”
Nick says that money isn’t the only thing that some people are born to. Some people are naturally just nicer and more honest
‘A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth’
Wealth is all show
Like Gatsby’s books
‘My own house was an eyesore, but…a partial view of…consoling proximity of millionaires’
Tom’s old money can afford him expensive items
the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Gatsby’s education
‘An Oxford man’
How can Daisy talk about ‘worth’, when she was born with her money/given it by Tom’s inheritance.
Gatsby is the real worth
“You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
