"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place on Long Island in the early 1920s. Gatz is from a lower class Midwestern farming family who falls in love with the wealthy well bread Daisy. The two are unable to marry and live happily ever after as they are from vastly different backgrounds and social status. Gatz enlists in the military and upon the end of his service is befriended by a wealthy benefactor who …showed first 75 words of 671 total…

…showed last 75 words of 671 total…just happened, it is in the first 2 pages and in the last 2 pages that Fitzgerald bluntly voices what he truly desires for the reader to understand. Even though "The Great Gatsby" did not necessarily change my life but it definitely made me better understand the concept of Old vs. New money. It changed the way I view wealthy people. Even though some do get born into the prosperous families, others earn their way of life.