The Great Gatsby
What is Nick's social class/ background? How did his family make his money?
All focused on chapter one
All focused on chapter one
Nick was well off but certainly not part of the social elite. He is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale moves to the suburbs of New York. Nick comes from an upper middle-class background (you had to have money to go to Yale, you still do!) Still , Nick's family did not have a fraction of the money that Gatsby or Tom had.