I couldn't really incorporate this into my real blog for this week so I figured I would post it separately just to make sure I understand Marxist theory. If anything in this is wrong or you can add to it let me know, I am just trying to apply it to something I know to better understand it.
In the Great Gatsby, which teaches us the dangers of greed, Tom and Daisy walk away from the whole situation without a scratch because they are old money. Myrtle and George Wilson both end up broken and dead because they are from the Valley of Ashes and don't have the money to shield them. And Gatsby ends up dead because he is new money and he was foolish enough to have an ideological dream (Love) instead of material ones like Tom and Daisy.
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