A Self Seeking World The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the world’s most renowned American novels, displays the immoral actions in the world’s society. The most profound issues being envy, wrath, avarice, and lust. Commodities of the world, such as social class and materialistic things, enticed the characters to abandon their morals. In many cases, morality isn’t significant to people when it comes to obtaining or maintaining status or wealth. One lack of morality mentioned was of lust, shown through the stories of both Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan’s infidelity. Myrtle Wilson, who had an affair with Tom, had no problem being unfaithful to her husband George, because Tom could give her the lifestyle she dreamed of, even if
