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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trey is old money wealthy.  His family is wealthy, probably from multiple generations of wealth.  He went to top schools and got a nice paying job as a doctor.

Big is new money wealthy.  He didn't come from wealth (or only modestly wealthy), but went to school and got a very high paying job in NYC.

It's pretty apparent that they were differentiating between old and new money with these two characters.[/quote]

SATC did an excellent job portraying NYers from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

Even though there was a social discrepancy between Big and Carrie, Big was not truly upper class. He was cosplaying as upper class socially due to likely having amassed wealth in his profession as a banker to compete with the upper classes.

Like Carrie he was a social climber and his choice of wife reflected that every time. Now that he wanted in , he targeted women from the NYC upper class.

[b]The one-time appearance of his mother does raise questions, however, as she had the airs of someone who was upper class. Her behavior contradicts Big's ostentatious displays of wealth and status. [/b]So Maybe he Is supposed to also be upper class? [/quote]

NP to this old thread. I read his mom at the church scene as once he made it big (I assumed IB/trader who had made it big in crazy days of the 80s--Big Swinging D*cks being the genesis of his name) he supported his mother who was MC from Long Island or NJ. Hence, her own "airs" in how she acted. She was "new rich." Unlike Trey's mother who had old New England wealth, including the Manhattan apartment that Charlotte got in the divorce settlement. [/quote]

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