The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in the Roaring 20s, which is defined by the technology and life styles that changed a nation. Americans had a higher salary after WWI, and they had more to spend it on. Life seemed grand for the dapper citizens of the 1920s, yet all that glitters is not gold. Fitzgerald portrays the dark and sinister side of the Roaring Twenties. The Great Gatsby provides an assessment of the gilded life of the 1920s and its underlying corruption.
Fitzgerald, like all authors, wrote The Great Gatsby for a reason more than to just document the 1920s life in its splendor. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era for the decay of moral and social values. In the 1920s, people were wealthier due to the war, and they had excess where their ancestors had had not enough. People became impartial to one another, and Fitzgerald highlights this in his novel. The characters are so obsessed with glitz and glam that they do not care for …show more content…
She attempts to steal Tom away from Daisy while maintaining her relationship with George, her husband, and she realizes just how much control over Tom she has. She gets what she wants from Tom with just a bat of her eyes while playing her husband. For example, when Myrtle asks for a dog Tom does not even hesitate. She gets the dog and takes it back to their apartment (that was purchased for her pleasure.) Myrtle knew she held so much sway over Tom that she even dared to call him during dinner, and when he told her she was not to say his wife’s name, she dared to continue to say it. Even if it resulted in a bloodied face, she knew that she had won that fight. She was so content with Tom that she was ready to leave her husband, and Tom was not the one going to disagree with her. Even on the night she died, she knew Tom would have stopped and picked her up when she had had enough of Mr. Wilson. It is only unfortunate that irony was the driving
Fitzgerald, like all authors, wrote The Great Gatsby for a reason more than to just document the 1920s life in its splendor. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era for the decay of moral and social values. In the 1920s, people were wealthier due to the war, and they had excess where their ancestors had had not enough. People became impartial to one another, and Fitzgerald highlights this in his novel. The characters are so obsessed with glitz and glam that they do not care for …show more content…
She attempts to steal Tom away from Daisy while maintaining her relationship with George, her husband, and she realizes just how much control over Tom she has. She gets what she wants from Tom with just a bat of her eyes while playing her husband. For example, when Myrtle asks for a dog Tom does not even hesitate. She gets the dog and takes it back to their apartment (that was purchased for her pleasure.) Myrtle knew she held so much sway over Tom that she even dared to call him during dinner, and when he told her she was not to say his wife’s name, she dared to continue to say it. Even if it resulted in a bloodied face, she knew that she had won that fight. She was so content with Tom that she was ready to leave her husband, and Tom was not the one going to disagree with her. Even on the night she died, she knew Tom would have stopped and picked her up when she had had enough of Mr. Wilson. It is only unfortunate that irony was the driving