These aristocrats prevented people from leaving their past behind and climbing to a higher social position because they maintained that you can only be born into this class. In order to overcome this, Gatsby created a new identity asserting, “I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition”(65). This was clearly a lie, but he wanted to believe that he could be a person of old money. Another example of the exclusion was illustrated when Tom remarked, “All this old sport business. Where’d you pick that up?”(127). Yet again separating Gatsby from the Buchanans and demonstrating that his attempts to blend into this group were futile. Lasty, the words of Tom deliver the final blow to Gatsby, “She's not leaving me-- Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger “(133). This cements the idea that Gatsby will never be considered good enough for Daisy because he was not born into money. Even Gatsby’s great optimism and wealth were not enough to overcome the class barrier that separated him from
These aristocrats prevented people from leaving their past behind and climbing to a higher social position because they maintained that you can only be born into this class. In order to overcome this, Gatsby created a new identity asserting, “I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition”(65). This was clearly a lie, but he wanted to believe that he could be a person of old money. Another example of the exclusion was illustrated when Tom remarked, “All this old sport business. Where’d you pick that up?”(127). Yet again separating Gatsby from the Buchanans and demonstrating that his attempts to blend into this group were futile. Lasty, the words of Tom deliver the final blow to Gatsby, “She's not leaving me-- Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger “(133). This cements the idea that Gatsby will never be considered good enough for Daisy because he was not born into money. Even Gatsby’s great optimism and wealth were not enough to overcome the class barrier that separated him from