Old vs. New Money

Over the years the ways money has been earned and spent has changed dramatically. In the Great Gatsby money was spent carelessly and earned through many ways such as being a professional athlete for Tom Buchanan and through bootlegging or selling alcohol illegally for Jay Gatsby. The characters often
hosted elegant expensive parties and drove very nice cars and wore very fashionable clothing.

Today money is earned and spent with a little bit more responsibility then in the 1920's. Most wealthy people today drive nice cars as they did in the old days but rather then buy a lot of gold products like Gatsby did, they own real estate and other investments. The stock market is also a popular place for people to invest there money today. Bootlegging led to many men becoming rich in the time of the Great Gatsby, but today alcohol is legal so there would be no profit in that industry. Money has changed a lot over the years and so has the way it is earned and spent.

source: The Great Gatsby novel