The Great Gatsby Morality Analysis

The 1920s in the United States was a decade like no other. There were new inventions coming out all over the place, people were engaging in different activities, and, most importantly, the idea of living by a moral code had essentially disappeared. People at this time began to experiment with situations and people became much more adventurous than ever; wondering astray from focusing one’s life on a moral code, but instead to live as people desired. During this same period of time in the “Roaring Twenties,” many authors were taking great advantage of the situations and began to incorporate the times of their society into their works. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was among the authors whom utilized the aspects of morality, or rather immorality, in his …show more content…
Each character in the novel had their own faults and it seemed as though none of them cared about how their actions affected the people around them. The characters lied and cheated their way through the plot of the novel, corrupting everything around them as they went on. Fitzgerald stressed all of the issues with his characters ' lives and the wrong things that they and done, and never seemed to look at any of the uplifting and positive sides of the their lives. Gatsby and Myrtle had lived according to their desires for so long, that it ultimately led to their demise. Fitzgerald’s novel had immorality written all over it, from character to character nobody followed a moral code, and in the end, only a few paid a price for