Diana Montes
Ms. Hart
American Literature
8th of April, 2015
Corruption in the government system and in the 1920’s Mexico is a country that has become known to be very corrupt to its people, and this is mostly because of its Institutional Revolutionary Party, also known as PRI. This political party dominated Mexico’s political institutions for approximately seventy years. Many of its members that have served in Mexico’s government have corrupted Mexico in some way. Some of them have taken money from the country for their own selfish needs and robbed their own people. The main theme in The Great Gatsby is “Excessive wealth and materialism leads to carelessness, corruption, and destruction.” In connection to that, Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary …show more content…
They have both used corruption in order to obtain money or power. For example, in the book, Gatsby tells us Meyer Wolfsheim fixed the 1919 World Series game(Fitzgerald, 73). This shows how in order to obtain what he wanted to Mr. Wolfsheim had to cheat his way to get the most profit. In the same way PRI had to rig some of the elections they were in, in order to make sure they won. After that part in the book and as other events happen Mr. Wolfsheim’s personality shows out more. During this same time period prohibition was going on, so many people took advantage of this and started to sell alcohol illegally, wealth. We are told in the book that that is how Wolfsheim and Gatsby know each other, and why they are also so wealthy. Later in book, more specifically after Gatsby’s death, Nick Carroway had to plan a funeral for him, which unfortunately, no one showed up to. While Nick was planning, he called people, that claimed to have been Gatsby’s friends. For this, Nick called Mr. Wolfsheim and he said “When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different--if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end” (Fitzgerald, 171). Wolfsheim, no matter how close he was to Gatsby, refused to get mixed up in his funeral. This shows how with wealth as time goes by your personal relationships start to mean nothing to you if they have nothing to do with business and how you can obtain