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In his novel The Great Gatsby (1925) F. S. Fitzgerald introduces the reader to a set of characters that stand on the different levels of socioeconomic ladder and by destiny’s will share each other’s lives. Reading the novel one can ....

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... In the city families who have been wealthy for several generations occupy the sophisticated East Side; in order to buy an apartment there one must provide good recommendations. West Side is less sophisticated and therefore less desirable for it is open to the “new money.” By creating this setting Fitzgerald is trying to make the reader understand that a character like Gatsby needs a certain environment to exist. Although Gatsby’s persona is surrounded by different rumors, and “contemporary legends such as the ‘underground pipe-line to Canada’ attached themselves to his name,” people come to his p ...