Power is something that is measured in different things. Power is not how much you bench press, its about how much money you make and what type of connections you have. A person with money is a person that is calling the shots ad is someone that other envy but at the same time have people intimidated.

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the idea of powerful vs. powerless is shown. Tom is a powerful man due to his wealth and his wife daisy is powerless. Due to his wife being so powerless she is intimidated not because of his size but because of his wealth. She sees that he is cheating on her and he does what he wants and shows that he really doesn't care for her yet she stays maybe not because she loves him but because he has so much money and she living well. This also shows that because the time period in this book is in the 1920's, the women are less then men in everything, that men say so goes and women obey men.

In families the older ones with the good eduction and he money makers are the ones that call the shots. This happens in the real world such as when we choice a president we vote for the one with the better eduction and the one that has the most connections.