Carly Shaw is a fourth senior English student, and second-year transfer, pursuing both college and departmental honors. After completing a research thesis with the Undergraduate Research Fellows Program, Carly was enthusiastic to pursue many more of the research opportunities that UCLA has to offer, including the Undergraduate Research Fellows Program and the UCLA English Departmental Honors Program. Her research for both the URSP and her honors thesis research paper concerns F. Scott Fitzgerald’s canonical text The Great Gatsby in evaluating the socio-economic structure of America in the early twentieth century, primarily through the lens of the theories of Thorstein Veblen and Max Weber. She will additionally be investigating the morality and mannerism that defined different classes of wealth. After Carly completes her research and graduates from UCLA, she plans on pursuing a doctoral degree in English with an emphasis in American Literature. Upon completion of the program, Carly intends to pursue a career in academia as a professor at the University level.