Old Money vs New Money
Sam Reichert
Throughout
the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a constant conflict between
the people with old and new money. For
some reason, the people with old money think that they are better than the
people with new money. They think that
it is in their blood, and that they were born with power and the right to use
that money. For example Tom is always thinking
of himself as being superior because he was born with a great fortune. However I think that the only thing that
distinguished the old money people from the new money people, before the new
money people received their money, was the fact that they were born into
money. For the most part, all I see in
old money people is that they are selfish, and arrogant, and they do not care
about other people. They think that they
should be given things, because they deserve it. For the most part, these old money people did
not have to work or earn their money.
They were just given it. However
the new money people had to work for their money. They were not given the luxury of just being
born into money. I think that
characteristic is something to admire in the new money people. They worked hard to get where they were, and I
think it is unfair and not right for the old money people to not acknowledge
them.
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