Key Terms
What is meant by the term: Revolution?
What is the conflict between the upper, middle, and lower (working) classes.
What is an example of old money and new money in the novel?
What are the West Egg and the East Egg
What class does Tom fit into?
What is the upper class.
What is meant by the term: Commodification?
What is turning everything into a product and its power to impress others.
What civilization does East Egg symbolize?
What is Europe.
What Class does Marxism side with,
what is the lower class.
What is meant by the term: Material Dialectic?
What is what drives change is economics, not ideas, philosophy, religion or art.
Gatsby's Rise from poverty is symbolized by which of the eggs?
What is West Egg.
What class would Nick Fit into?
What is the middle class.
What is meant by the term: Conspicuous Consumption?
What is the acquisition of things only for their sign value.
What civilization does West Egg symbolize?
What is America.
What location symbolizes the working class?
What is New York.
What is meant by the term: Dialectical Materialism?
What is the History that develops as a struggle between contradictions that ultimately find resolution in a synthesis of the two sides.
Which Egg is symbolized by inherited money?
What is East Egg.
What Idea does Marxism support