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Marx and Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous Pre-Depression-era novel The Great Gatsby reveals perceptive commentary on the dangers of capitalism through the title character Jay Gatsby. Nick Carraway, who has recently moved to the West Egg district of Long Island, narrates the tale of Gatsby, the marvelously wealthy neighbor he befriends and whose ultimate destruction he observes throughout the novel. The overpowering obsession with money and social status that pervades the characters and their society can be linked to Karl Marx's theories of capitalism. Marx's actual economic fact explains the devaluation of men as a result of the "increase in value of the world of things." Jay Gatsby places high value on achieving material wealth and social status, but he loses his identity, his soul, and eventually his life in his struggle to win the affections of Daisy Buchanan and to prove himself to be something more than "new money," making him a creature of capitalism much in the......

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