This brought about a very consumerism type society. People were buying things just because they could, the fancier the better. An example of this in The Great Gatsby is Tom’s secret apartment where he take Myrtle. Even though he has a huge mansion that has everything in it, he still pays for an apartment and decorates it very fancy. Another example of this is when they decide to leave Tom’s house, when it was very hot toward the end of the book, to go to a hotel suite in the city. They didn’t even do anything, that they couldn’t have done at Tom’s house, at the
This brought about a very consumerism type society. People were buying things just because they could, the fancier the better. An example of this in The Great Gatsby is Tom’s secret apartment where he take Myrtle. Even though he has a huge mansion that has everything in it, he still pays for an apartment and decorates it very fancy. Another example of this is when they decide to leave Tom’s house, when it was very hot toward the end of the book, to go to a hotel suite in the city. They didn’t even do anything, that they couldn’t have done at Tom’s house, at the