1. Alienation and social classes
By: Austin Burns, Roman Gutierrez, Rosemary Maldonado, Jory Mirtil

2. Claim
In order to maintain social stability there always has to be a working-class and an upper class.

3. Textual evidence
" When the proletariat wins victory, It by no means becomes the absolute side of Society. for it wins victory only by abolishing itself and is opposite." ( Marx 60 )
In order to gain victory, the proletariat has to destroy itself and the opposition (private property) that in the end concludes in a stalemate.

4. Textual evidence continued
" Both the proletariat itself and its conditioning opposite-private property- disappear with the victory of the proletariat."( Marx 60).
While the proletariats work to higher their social status, a vicious yet endless cycle is created, resulting in the diminishment of both these classes. Thus a new working and upper class arises.

5. WRITING Strategies
Karl Marx uses diction and logos to support the central claim that In order to maintain social stability there always has to be a working-class and an upper class. Diction is used in this short story when Marx repetitively uses the words antagonism and proletariat. He repeats these words to draw attention to them and to emphasize them to the reader.

6. Connection to Gatsby
The central claim of the short story connects to The Great Gatsby through the diverse social statuses of the characters in the novel. Gatsby was the working class and become a property owner. Wilson on the other hand also tried to better his social status but was unsuccessful in doing so. Myrtle would do anything to higher her social status, she goes as far as having an affair with Tom.