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great gatsby
Title: great gatsby
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 864 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
great gatsby
In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald is criticising American society of the 1920s. He uses the characters to demonstrate the power than men had over women during these times, as well as their mindless, self-indulgent actions, where consequence was only an afterthought. The attitude towards and the role of women is shown throughout the novel. Fitzgerald also shows how many people in America during this time were delusional and had meaningless existences.
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…showed last 75 words of 864 total…cause great pain for those around them, whilst they never consider the consequences of these actions. Through the characters Daisy and Jordan, Fitzgerald shows how women were thought of, and their changing attitudes and roles. He also comments on the purposeless existences that many people lived, when they should have been fulfilling their potential. Fitzgerald seems to have believed that the society of the time in America lacked all important factors to make it worthwhile.
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