Was there really a winner as a result of World War I? The mood in Germany feels that there was not any real winner of the war. Germany and its allies are not the only countries that suffered from the impact of this great war. America became a loser of World War I in their domestic society. The health of American society is diminishing, along with Germany. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles in Paris called for the German government to pay reparations for the physical and mental losses of World War I to all of the allied states. The German government is suffering a great amount of economic loss due to these reparations. Germany is in the midst of an economic depression and the value of the dollar is going down and the unemployment rates are skyrocketing. While America is getting richer and richer, Germany is getting poorer and poorer. But, American society is becoming more and more presumptuous and starting to suffer domestic problems as a result of the morale of their people. There are three main problems within the American society that are starting to emerge as a result of World War I. These problems started emerging in the early

The characters in The Great Gatsby are all facing the problem of demoralization through many sinful actions. These characters come to represent the society of America in the East during the 1920's. One of these demoralizing aspects of society is the sin of adultery. Two cases of adultery are seen throughout the novel, one between a character named Tom Buchanan and the character of Myrtle Wilson (wife of Wilson the mechanic). Then, the affair between Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby was also present towards the end of the novel. The sin of adultery is an action seen throughout history and literature, but divorce is something that is not until the arrival of the 1920's in America. The Great Gatsby portrays divorce as a last option, but it is still thought about in the minds of some of the characters.

"No wasting time at Shafters or (a name, indecipherable)

"He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced-or seemed to face-the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you..." (Fitzgerald, 52-53).

Daisy was not a Catholic and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie," (Fitzgerald, 38).

The demoralization of American society through adultery, organized crime, and reckless driving are all factors that lead up to the death of the "American dream." Benjamin Franklin first introduced the "American dream" in his autobiography. Some aspects of Franklin's dream included freedom, opportunity, wealth, success, fulfillment, equality, pluralism, progress, and nature. But, through time, the meaning and interpretation of the real dream developed by Franklin was lost by Americans. Fitzgerald shows this through the life and character of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby represents the real America of inequality, materialism, racism, constraint, and industry. Materialist in the sense of his desire for many shirts, boats, cars, nice homes, and many other personal possessions that make him look better and supposedly feel better about his self-image. Franklin and Gatsby both represent self-made men, but Gatsby is the "new" kind of one depicted by Fitzgerald. Gatsby represents the "new idealist American," who wants to achieve the American dream, but his ways of doing it are much different than Franklin. Gatsby is similar to Franklin for being very organized and disciplines himself as a young man. Franklin and Gatsby, as well as many self-made men, believe that one's dreams can be accomplished through self-discipline and organization. Gatsby set a schedule for him self for when to wake up, when to work out, when to eat, when to work, when to have fun, etc. He also gave himself a set of "General Resolves" that read:

This face put on by Gatsby shows Franklin's concept of putting on different faces for different people to make them like you and have trust in you. The rarity of Gatsby's smile shows that America is lacking dreamers and is in desperate need of them.

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