“The Great Gatsby” appears to be a pessimistic story featuring the individual characters that overcome their imperfect past to become socially recognized due to their wealth status. In "The Great Gatsby" novel, social advancement is based on classes. These classes are either on education and wealth that determines the individual status. Education and wealth create a gap between the rich and the poor, something that affected their social interaction resulting in conflicts within the individual characters in the novel as narrated by Fitzgerald. Conflicts in the novel appear in different forms, such as; personal conflicts that occur between the external environment and oneself and the internal person versus self. Therefore, in the analysis of the novel, the discussion is going to analyze the conflicts that occurred between individuals, which led to their oppositions. The conflicts in this scenario appear as a good guy and the bad guy. This is because there are the protagonist and the antagonist between the characters. The leading cause of the conflicts to be discussed is immoral behavior as it appears in the disputes between Daisy and Tom in their marriage. The social status between Jay Gatsby and Daisy causes opposition; for people like Gatsby, even though he was from a poor background, he accumulated wealth to win Daisy’s heart without thinking of the odds. Therefore the theme is excellent to the literary thesis statement since it helps to develop a significant tension between the characters. Also, there is a conflict between individuals and society, such as Daisy, as she complains about the society she was immersed in. This is because Daisy failed to marry Gatsby since he did not make the standards of the upper class even though she loved him. Oppositions between different backgrounds, families, and other members of society are all going to be covered in the analysis of the novel "Great Gatsby."
The opposition between Daisy and Tom
There is an opposition between Daisy and Tom’s business that is operated around New York. The opposition is due to the conflicts between their marriages that led Daisy to doubt Tom about having an affair outside marriage, which is undoubtedly true ‘‘Tom’s got some woman in New York” (Fitzgerald 118). This statement shows that Tom has been playing Daisy during his plundering work in New York. The conflicts between the couples soured, but Daisy still did not see any reason for divorcing Tom because they came from the same social class. Due to their quarrels about Tom having an affair outside marriage, misunderstanding created a chance for the entry of other individuals such as Gatsby with a mission to destroy their marriage. The opposition between the higher class and the lower class saved the marriage since Daisy did not marry Gatsby because he did not meet social standards.
The opposition between Gatsby and Daisy
Both the characters have different social backgrounds since Gatsby comes from a low social class compared to Daisy that comes from a wealthy background. Even though Gatsby tried all means to accumulate wealth to qualify to win Daisy's heart, his social class still let him down something that has led Daisy to oppose him. Even though Gatsby had tried to work hard so that he can have a requirement to marry Daisy, his mysterious past still betrayed him. "He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: 'I never loved you.' After she had obliterated three years with that sentence, they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken" (Fitzgerald 118). This statement shows that Gatsby believed in himself that he could be able to provide whatever Daisy could get from Tom, but still, there is a strong affectionate of upper-class people attached to Daisy’s love.
The opposition between Tom and Gatsby
Tom and Gatsby act as the central oppositions in the novel, whereby there is an external conflict between them. The opposition is caused by Gatsby, who catalyzed love between Tom and Daisy. Gatsby aims to marry Daisy since, according to him; Daisy was undergoing bad treatment from Tom. Gatsby was not heard since he was from a poor background; something contributed to his opposition. Gatsby has also been nicknamed as the brute in the novel due to his low social status. "That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big hulking physical specimen of a…" (Fitzgerald 15).In this statement, Tom undermines Gatsby due to his social status in the society. “The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the wasteland, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing" (Fitzgerald 27). This statement shows a clear indication of the life of the people who belong to the lower class, such as Wilson, something that increased the opposition between the rich and the poor in the novel.
Conclusion
The discussion analyzes the novel "Great Gatsby," in which it features the pessimistic characters of individuals that appear in the novel. In the society described by the novel, there is a clear indication of the social biasness in the part of education as well as social wealth owned by individuals. It is clear that social wealth separate individual, affecting their social life either in marriage as well as the location of where one should live. The wealthy individuals marry together while the lower class people try to fix themselves in the shoes of those with wealth such as Gatsby and receive opposition from the wealthy class. The theme of the discussion introduced covers on conflicts specifying resistance that has been experienced by the characters in the novel. The conflicts discussed are between characters such as Daisy and Tom, Daisy and Gatsby, and Tom and Gatsby. In the novel, it is clear that individuals regroup themselves according to their status as well as the level of education of individuals. The upper class interacts with their wealthy counterparts and vice versa. Therefore, it is clear that upbringing affects our way of life in society.
