No, they felt threatened by them and their new wealth beleiving money not to be worth as much anymore if these lower class people could get hold of it
The landed gentry were a group of upper class people.The nouveau riche (french for "new rich") where poorer people who acquired welath within his or her generation, allowing them to buy goods or...
They thought they were silly
From Shmoop Lit/The Great Gatsby The New Rich tend to live in West Egg. Society, class and wealth are themes in The Great Gatsby.
What are books written about the nouveau riche in the 1920s