This meme reminds me of the TikTok audio that goes like, “Oh, we’re in a different tax bracket”. It is used to poke fun at people who are unnecessarily flaunting their wealth and riches by directly comparing them to normal people that are trying to get by. This in turn reminds me of how Daisy could never be with Gatbsy because “rich girls never marry poor boys”. Even when Gatsby becomes rich after the war and they are likely in the same tax bracket, she still does not want him because he is still in her heart a “poor boy”. After World War I, the struggle between old money and new money became much more prominent than it ever had in the past. Old money folks took pride in the family money and the reputation that came with it. New money folks had to keep on proving that they belonged in the rich community, they had the money after all. Even though almost everyone we meet in TGG is rich, there still seems to be a struggle of rich versus poor. There are the old money Buchanans and new money Gatsby. Both are insav=nely rich, but only the Buchanans are fully respected members of society, while Gatsby hides who he really is. Only the people we meet though icka and the reader knows who Gatsby really is. To everyone else, he is a personality not a real person. He is in a different tax bracket from them, in money and in reality. He is a figment of the imagination of the public.