THE SOCIAL CLASS IN FITZGERALD’S THE GREAT GATSBY = THE SOCIAL CLASS IN FITZGERALD’S THE GREAT GATSBY

Al Madyah Chaerunnisa. 2024. Social Class In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Supervised by M. Amir P and Abbas) This study aims to describe the social class in the novel The Great Gatsby. This study also explains the impact of social class of the main character Jay Gatsby in the novel. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative method. The data source in this study is the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. To support the data in analysis, the writer used structuralism approach and used social class of Karl Marx approach to analyze the social class of the novel included the impact of social class of the main character, Jay Gatsby.The result of this research shows that there are three social class in the novel such as upper, middle and lower class. These three classes can be demonstrated through their behavior, job, clothes, and residence. The other finding is the impact of social class to the main character, Jay Gatsby. He has comfort and luxury but Gatsby’s struggle to cross social boundaries leads to his downfall, thus showing how difficult it is overcome class differences in a stratified society.

Keywords : social class, Structuralism Approach, Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.