Cliques, Class and Society: Can i force my way in?

     Ultimately i think it is quite possible to force you way into a higher social class. The only thing is that I do not believe you will ever truly be of that social class because you would have grown up learning the morals and rules and everything else associated with your decision making, from the stand point of your social class of that time. Sure you can go to school and get an education and receive a higher paying job  and improve your quality of life, but you will still make decisions and act based on what you have learned growing up as a, lets say middle class person. There for I believe that the only true way to be of a certain class is to be born into that class. That's not to say you can't change the social class of your family. Allow me to elaborate, I think that if you are of middle class and you get an education and create a nice sized wealth for your self, that further down the road, assuming that your children and grandchildren are able to maintain and keep this new quality of life you have achieved that eventually your family will become high class, but you will not be able to change your own social class during the time that you live. When i interviewed Tom Buchanan, he was entitled to agree with me.

Interview: Tom Buchanan

(Thoughts on Cliques, Class and Society: Can i force my way in?)

" Will Aidan, i would have to completely agree with you. Myself being of "Old Money" and living in the East Egg for some years now, i can easily tell when someone is of "new money" and not just because they live in West Egg. It's all about the way they behave, there is certain things that give them away, such as how they talk and stand and walk. these are things that you learn as you are raised from birth, and you cant just change the way you do them all of a sudden after 20 or so years of doing it a certain way. That is why i also believe that sure, it is one thing to force your way into a social class or clique or a higher society but to actually belong to it and fit in is something completely different. Look at that fellow Gatsby for instance. He earned his fortune with a shady business that is well associate with his former social class. Now all of a sudden just because he has earned a little spending money he thinks he is of high class and just just waltz around doing as he pleases. Old sport indeed, that inconsiderate baboon actually thought that he could even get away with snatching my own wife right out from under me. Now look at where all this pretending and child's play has gotten him, an early grave that's where. all due to living as a higher class with the mind set and rules of the low class".

     Further more i would like to point out how similar my view point is, if not the same as F. Scott Fitzgerald, the man who wrote The Great Gatsby. He shares the life of Jay Gatsby, the man who forced his way into a better social class and showed that although he was playing the part truly down inside him he had not actually changed he was the same man he was as a kid the same man he had grown up and raised to be. He was not born into a higher class and so he never truly obtained it.