Nick, a transplanted midwesterner uneasy in the East, is anxious to belong yet sensitive to the subtle snub his mixed emotions are suggested here in the juxtaposition of "lovely" and "smirk" in his description of Daisy.
During his evening at the Buchanans', Nick Carraway says Daisy "looked at with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged" (p. In Fitzgerald's novel, "class struggle" in America is portrayed as an intensely personal affair, as much a tension within the mind of a single character as a conflict between characters. Students' own experience of the struggle to belong can provide a starting point for an exploration of how concerns about wealth, race, geographical origins, and other factors affect the perception of social status in F. To assert their status in a crowd, students must learn the unwritten and unspoken codes of behavior. Who's out? Who's in? What's cool? What's not? Behind many of the questions is a burning desire to belong. The high school social scene is rife with drama. However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works." "That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town a poor boy in a rich boy's school a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton.
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