theme 
Wealth, Class, and Society:
 The characters represented the wealthiest members of 1920s New York 
society.Instead, the rich characters showed their negative qualities on display: 
wastefulness, pleasure seeking, and carelessness.Tom Buchanan came from the wealthy elite, while Jay Gatsby was a self-made 
millionaire.The novel also suggested that wealth was not equivalent to social class.Despite their money, they were not portrayed as particularly ambitious.