Throughout the twentieth century America as a nation has seen many social and cultural changes. From sock-hops to the sit-ins, out of all the decades, one of the most intriguing was that following WWI, the “Roaring Twenties”. The electricity, corruption, wealth, and booze are all shown vividly and accurately in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. The characters, throughout the story each represent a special symbolism of the culture of the age. The …showed first 75 words of 1179 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1179 total…an incorrect assumption George Wilson murders Gatsby and the takes his own life. After these events Nick comes to the complete realization that the wealthy were not the people he wanted to live his life with. Nicks sees while trying to arrange Gatsby’s funeral that these people he had been with were exactly like he had first assumed, but didn’t say. They were all superficial with little or no moral values. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**