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Outsiders of Society People in society often find themselves in the center of an internal conflict. Some people feel they are more on the outside of society looking in on it rather than being a part of society. In The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Invisible Man, the protagonist in each novel all share the same internal conflict of being an outsider and not being accepted by society. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the protagonist Gatsby is always thought of as a rich, confident, and very popular person who throws these lavish parties for the upper class. Gatsby attends these parties that he hosts, but he never appears to be there.Gatsby is rich by his fortune through bootlegging and although he may seem to fit in with the upper class, he is not one of them. In fact, he is the opposite of what everyone portrays him to be. If he did not throw these parties, no one would come around Gatsby’s place. He merely is a part of society by having these parties to show off some of his wealth. But he no matter how rich or how great his parties are, they will not make him the person he pretends to be. Gatsby lies about his past to some of the people he talks to so the rich will seem him as important, rather than worthless.
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