“The Great Gatsby” was a great American novel that marks many controversial social and political issues of the early twentieth century in history. The issues at hand are directly targeted to the upper class tier of the American society. Of the many class issues that exist in the novel the ones that stand out the most are socially defined levels of class conflict, disillusionment of the youth because of World War One, and the youths …showed first 75 words of 925 total…

…showed last 75 words of 925 total…century encompassed many social issues that affected society as a Whole. “The Great Gatsby” focused on many of these social issues for one class of society in an attempt to document some of the very serious issues of the time. Even though the aim of conflict really affected one social tier of society, I believe all the people of the time could have read the book and related these controversial issues into their own life.