Comodification is the name of the game. The reading does put a dent in my interpretation of Gatsby. Primarily, the idea of Sign-Exchange Rate helps me see that using people and relationships to increase one's social status, even if that means inadvertently bringing it down immediately after words.
I definitely agree more with the Marxist interpretation than the Psychoanalytical lens, especial sense Fitzgerald used class systems as a main theory in Gatsby, not Oedipus relationships.
From the very beginning chapter Nick describing the wealth differences between the east and west eggs, and how it much it matter if you were born in one or the other. Which, can be interpreted as "which class you're born into."
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