Life in the 1920's was much different than that of life during any other era and Fitzgerald depicts this in The Great Gatsby very accurately through the characters. One critic stated that "The only bad of it is that the characters are mostly so unpleasant in themselves that th

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Fitzgerald's use of the setting is also another incredible technique used in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's description of Gatsby's mansion is a perfect example of this. "The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard- it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby's mansion." Throughout the novel Fitzgerald uses this type of description to put the reader into the story and give them a realistic sense of the time period.

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