This is America
In today’s society, it comes as no surprise that people are just as, if not even more, obsessed with power than ever before. Citizens viciously compete for affluence, authority, any tangible proof that they are above the others, and go out of their ways to demonstrate it. We see this not only in the classist ideals that motivate people to attain power, but also in the corrupt ways in which those in power take advantage of their position above other people. On a day to day basis, the news is flooded constantly with stories of corrupt businesses, police brutality, hate crimes. To me, as I look around and see the disarray that our nation has descended into, I feel that America is simply a land of megalomania. Perhaps America's most evident proof of its citizens' desire to prove their power are in the capitalistic and classist values upheld in the country. This obsession is highlighted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby , when Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson get into a dis
