Race, Anti-Semitism, and Bigotry

From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tom's racist diatribes and the caricatured portrait of Meyer Wolfshiem are among the novel's most debated passages regarding prejudice in the period.
Chapter 1

Tom rants about 'The Rise of the Coloured Empires'—a fictional stand-in for Lothrop Stoddard's racist tract.

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Chapter 4

Meyer Wolfshiem introduced with stereotyped features and human-molar cufflinks—often discussed as anti-Semitic caricature.

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