The symolism of old vs new money represents our daily society. For example there are the people who are just born into a rich family and do not work a bit for any of there wealth such as the many sons or daughters of celebrities. Money is no use to them once they have all they can possibly want. The television show Two and a Half Men offered the character Charlie upwards of one million dollars per episode! That income many people would die for but for him it is of no use. So this relates directly to old vs new money in The Great Gatsby. The new money is the you people who have worked for their wealth and struggled and reciently came into fortune. These people may have been less "stuck up" because of their common appreciation of their experience of past difficult times.
Gatsby is part of the Old money on the East side but at the very edge of the dividing line. He lives next to Nick Carraway who knows Tom and Daisy who are also old money and Nick describes them as arrogant. This is ussually true those who have the most money are the most mean and unhappy people. Anyone can put on a smile but it doesn't mean it has to be genuine.
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