Past generations are always exciting, consequently many today dream about how it was like to live during that time. There was different culture, morals and ethics. The 1920’s is a perfect time period to view, because this is a time of prosperity in America. Literature, music, and clothing are changing. People have different views, compared to what we have now. For example, marriage was a trend during the 1920’s, as well as divorce. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby he writes about the people and the dancing and glamour during this time period. He portrays themes on how marriage was during this time. As time passes the essence of marriage changes as well and as different people merge, conflicts emerge hence their relationship is
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Mr. Gatsby was a man who came from a poor family and rose to become a very wealthy man. In a sense, Gatsby’s story is what you hear in movies, a man going off to war and coming back to look for his true love and does anything to make her happy. While others searched for wealth Gatsby just wanted Daisy to himself. During the 1920’s it was unlikely for people to just rush into marriage, they dated and got to know the other person. Gatsby’s view on marriage was like a typical romance movie, and living happily ever after. Nick Carraway, the narrator, seemed to be indifferent about marriage. He saw what was going on in all of the relationships showed in the story and even claimed that he “had no intention of being rumored into marriage”. In the story he seemed to have a small romance with Jordan Baker, but in the end they seemed to not get along very well, due to their different social classes and personalities. That seems to be the scenario in many of the relationships in the novel, when social classes mix up it doesn’t seem to work out, or just money is the issue. In the novel Jay Gattsby tells Tom “Your wife doesn’t love you...She only married yoiu because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.” This is the main focus of marriage is in 1920’s, the mix of classes and the view of a typical marriage. By a typical marriage is what women had in mind their whole lives …show more content…
This seemed to be the case for marriages during this time, and many ended in divorce. It seems like some of the characters have lust towards other characters. For example, you have Myrtle and Tom having an affair and kind of a fantasy life outside their reality. Daisy and Gatsby are just two lovers that have found each other again and try to make things work out, even though she is married. It’s interesting in the novel, because it seems as if they knew what their partners were doing but said nothing and pretended everything was a perfect marriage, like it should be. Tom had an idea about Daisy running off with Gatsby but didn’t believe she would leave him for Gatsby. As well as Wilson, he began to realize his wife Myrtle’s unfaithful behavior towards the end of the book. Daisy knew about Tom’s affair since the beginning of the book yet did nothing about it. In a sense, they still wanted to have that image of perfect marriage that was going on during this time period. Trying to hide and sneak around was the image that this generation had created, and of having fun and
Mr. Gatsby was a man who came from a poor family and rose to become a very wealthy man. In a sense, Gatsby’s story is what you hear in movies, a man going off to war and coming back to look for his true love and does anything to make her happy. While others searched for wealth Gatsby just wanted Daisy to himself. During the 1920’s it was unlikely for people to just rush into marriage, they dated and got to know the other person. Gatsby’s view on marriage was like a typical romance movie, and living happily ever after. Nick Carraway, the narrator, seemed to be indifferent about marriage. He saw what was going on in all of the relationships showed in the story and even claimed that he “had no intention of being rumored into marriage”. In the story he seemed to have a small romance with Jordan Baker, but in the end they seemed to not get along very well, due to their different social classes and personalities. That seems to be the scenario in many of the relationships in the novel, when social classes mix up it doesn’t seem to work out, or just money is the issue. In the novel Jay Gattsby tells Tom “Your wife doesn’t love you...She only married yoiu because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.” This is the main focus of marriage is in 1920’s, the mix of classes and the view of a typical marriage. By a typical marriage is what women had in mind their whole lives …show more content…
This seemed to be the case for marriages during this time, and many ended in divorce. It seems like some of the characters have lust towards other characters. For example, you have Myrtle and Tom having an affair and kind of a fantasy life outside their reality. Daisy and Gatsby are just two lovers that have found each other again and try to make things work out, even though she is married. It’s interesting in the novel, because it seems as if they knew what their partners were doing but said nothing and pretended everything was a perfect marriage, like it should be. Tom had an idea about Daisy running off with Gatsby but didn’t believe she would leave him for Gatsby. As well as Wilson, he began to realize his wife Myrtle’s unfaithful behavior towards the end of the book. Daisy knew about Tom’s affair since the beginning of the book yet did nothing about it. In a sense, they still wanted to have that image of perfect marriage that was going on during this time period. Trying to hide and sneak around was the image that this generation had created, and of having fun and