Part 2 -- Dale (Heng) Xing -- Class Shapes The American Dream

           Myrtle Wilson

  Myrtle was an underclass woman, both she and her husband were working class. Can't buy beautiful clothes and living in a dirty garage. She tried everything to climb up the social ladder and become a noble. So she chose to be Tom's lover, hoping that one day Tom would divorce Daisy and marry her.

  Her American dream was to move up to a higher class and pull herself out of the lower level. She traded her body for Tom's love, thinking that one day she could become his wife, and then her dream would come true, and she would enter the upper class. But Tom sees their relationship as more of a deal. He's not going to divorce his wife for a lover, and he's not going to bring her home.

  These are the followers of the American dream, eager to fulfill their dreams and desires. In the eyes of the great, it is only a tool, and they will not allow a tool to enter their class. All they need is one person after another to come to this city for the American dream. You can be anyone, and anyone can be you. They don't care who you are, only who they can work with, who is their class or who is higher than them.
  In the story, myrtle is a sacrificial character who dies in the game between Tom and these gentlemen. Daisy, Tom, these gentlemen don't care about her. But before she died, she was still thinking about her American dream. This is the controlled underclass.
  What needs to change is those who stand on the top of the mountain, they do not care, only see themselves and money. We can't change the lower classes, who are working for the American dream and desire, which is the power and productivity of society. What we need is for the upper classes to change their attitude towards the working class. Let them stop hurting the lower levels and stop using the lower classes as tools.
  “nd while stock markets have soared, enriching the elites, suicide rates and other “deaths of despair” (such as opioid overdoses) have also soared, as the working class has fallen further into financial and psychological insecurity.”Because poverty made myrtle crazy, she was mad to get a good position and have more money. Most people are in a dangerous environment, they are trying to make their situation better. Myrtle and her husband did the same things.

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