The novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, attempts to show the power of the wealthy elite and the misery of the poor working class. It uses elements of setting, characterization, and mood to reveal capitalist domination at its worst. Fitzgerald set the book in two very distinct locations. The valley of ashes is where the working class lives. It's the location of the industrial city, filled with factories and thick, black smoke. All …
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…of happiness. Only those who can see the true evils of hierarchical class structures can see that money may bring happiness to some, but only at the expense of many. The deaths of Gatsby and Myrtle at the end of the novel show how fake aspirations of wealth in society go wrong because of money's ability to corrupt. Attempting to ascend the ladder of classes in a capitalist society will only result in bad things.