Great Gatsby Marxist Analysis

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“Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens” once said by Martin McGuinness, an Irish republican. McGuinness’ quote talks about social classes just like Marxist Criticism talks about social classes like in Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. Marxist Criticism is a theory about different social classes that can be found in any movie, book, fairytale, and real life. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the famous novel is a good point to Marxist Criticism that include inequality between social classes and how they interact with one another. Being in different social classes, people treasure their belongings based on how wealthy they are and who they are trying to impress. The wealthy show off all of their belongings

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