Arts & Humanities Journal|IJAH

Title: CONSPICUOUS CLOTHING OF THE LEISURE CLASS IN THE GREAT GATSBY
Authors: Yiyi Xie
Volume:5 Issue: 2
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Yiyi Xie College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
MLA 8 Xie, Yiyi. "CONSPICUOUS CLOTHING OF THE LEISURE CLASS IN THE GREAT GATSBY." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 5, no. 2, Mar.-Apr. 2021, pp. 21-29, doi.org/10.46609/IJAH.2021.v05i02.001. Accessed Mar.-Apr. 2021. APA 6 Xie, Y. (2021, March/April). CONSPICUOUS CLOTHING OF THE LEISURE CLASS IN THE GREAT GATSBY. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 5(2), 21-29. Retrieved from doi.org/10.46609/IJAH.2021.v05i02.001 Chicago Xie, Yiyi. "CONSPICUOUS CLOTHING OF THE LEISURE CLASS IN THE GREAT GATSBY." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 5, no. 2 (March/April 2021), 21-29. Accessed March/April, 2021. doi.org/10.46609/IJAH.2021.v05i02.001.
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Keywords: Conspicuous Clothing; Sign of Clothes, Identity
Abstract: The Great Gatsby is an outstanding work in the 1920s of the United States which vividly depicts the extravagant life of people in the Jazz Age. Their life seem to be unrestrained, but behind it is the frustration and bewilderment that money can not dispel. The novel is a true portrayal of the social climate and public psychology at Jazz Age. Scholars at home and abroad have made a full analysis of The Great Gatsby from the aspects of themes, characters, artistic and narrative techniques. There are also a lot of interpretations based on consumer culture, but few studies observing from the perspective of clothes consumption. In The Theory of Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen put forward that clothing is a manifestation of economic condition. To sum up, the paper, from the perspective of conspicuous consumption, analyzes how the clothes in The Great Gatsby expresses economic and social status, and how the protagonists acquire their identity from the clothes consumption.
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