Disillusionment in the 1920’s In the year 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, one of the greatest American novels. Based simply upon the effect of the jazz age, Fitzgerald's novel is about the love of Jay Gatsby for Daisy Buchanan. The narrator of the story is Daisy's cousin Nick. Other important characters include Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan and his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Jay's love for Daisy leads to the novel’s climax, which ends …showed first 75 words of 1254 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1254 total…of leaving town the day Gatsby is found murdered exemplifies the Buchanan’s heartless nature and leads to the overall tone at disillusionment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. Hitchens, Christopher. “The Road to West Egg.”. Vanity Fair. April 2000: 26-29. Rayburn, Kevin. “The 1920’s: The Roaring Twenties.” http://www.louisville.edu/~kprayb01/1920s-decade-of-giants. 5/10/01 Rayburn, Kevin. “The 1920’s: The Real Deal.” http://www.louisville.edu/~kprayb01/1920s-real-deal.html. 5/10/01