The Importance Of Education In The Great Gatsby

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The advantages provided to a person are not always known by others. These footholds in the world often are not given equally to everyone, something which is often referenced in The Great Gatsby by Nick Carraway. Some of these advantages include education, wealth, ignorance, and connections.
Education in The Great Gatsby is regarded as a symbol of being well off. Nick reveals he went to New Haven and graduated in 1915 along with Tom Buchanan (Fitzgerald 3). The pursuit of college helps with obtaining jobs and better opportunities and thus presents itself as something the public needs to have a successful life. However, this is something some people are unable to do despite tuition being at a lower price at that time. Unless you were middle class like Nick, or as wealthy as Tom you won’t be able to afford a higher education.
Wealth not only funds the pursuit of further schooling, but also gains you respect, power, and
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Such as Gatsby’s connection to Dan Cody. Before Gatsby become who he is now in the story he met a rich man on a lake. At that time he had went by his legal name, James Gatz, but Cody started the beginning of Gatz’s future with one moment: “...it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a rowboat, pulled out to the Tuolomee, and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.” (Fitzgerald 98). It was then Gatsby was born and a vital connection too. Cody had taught Gatsby everything he would use later on to become a successful man with a mansion in West Egg, despite Gatsby being kept from inheriting the wealth Cody left for him. It’s here that the advantage of creating connects and meeting others is really shown. Yet, not everyone can make connections like that or have the ability to make them either. The social skills, or the natural bond that is between two people, is not a universal occurrence and leaves many alone and without