Changes In The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the change in America’s morals during the Jazz Age in the 1920s by using characters like Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson, who all have experienced a large shift in mortality compared to just the generation before them. The novel shows the social change in American society after World War I, which was a time of conservatism, compared to the risqué twenties. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald continuously brings up interesting situations with different reasons and resolutions that severely put the morals of the twenties into question because they would not have been acceptable a decade before. Some of the then-taboo situations include: adultery, women drinking and smoking, more public partying, divorce, and bootlegging. So although The Great Gatsby is a novel about love and dreams, the underlying theme of this book seems to be showing the moral change in America during the Roaring Twenties.
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows one aspect of the change of America 's morality by revealing Tom Buchanan’s adultery with Myrtle Wilson. Tom is proud of cheating on his wife, Daisy Buchanan, and does not try to hide it from other men. The narrator, Nick Carraway, says: “[When] I first met Tom Buchanan’s …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald uses his dynamic characters to demonstrate many different forms of change during the 1920s to show the moral change in America. Interestingly, he also brings a few different elements together, such as Gatsby’s parties and adultery and how the unlikely pair relates. He uses strong, relatable examples, too, such as Gatsby 's determination to have “the American Dream,” to help his readers understand. Fitzgerald technically has not elaborated or revealed the true meaning of his novel, but it is clear that he is making a point of connecting that the changing morals and standards of the Roaring Twenties is strikingly similar to America’s