Text Connections

In The Great Gatsby there are many connections between the story narrated through the voice of Nick Carraway, and modern society. The most prominent of the text connections is a text-to-world connection that plays throughout the novel, the way the rich and the poor are portrayed, are much like how the rich and poor are thought of in today’s society. It resembles how the rich people are never satisfied with what they have, and they are always looking for more. It further resembles this by also depicting how the rich are often very unstable, with people taking advantage of their wealth. This is shown many times during the course of the novel, and is incredibly relevant with how rich people are today. On the other side, it also relates with how in this book the poor people lived in “Ash Towns,” and even though they don’t have much, they are, in most cases, the most kind hearted and happy social class, which is also the case today, however is less prevalent than how the rich are linked from this book. Overall this major text connection gives a better understanding of what the time period was like, because it relates to current times so well.