Throughout The Great Gatsby there are many disturbing instances, events, and people. These disturbing things put a lot into perspective such as an individual person's character and the character of society at the time. The society of the 1920's as described in the novel was a time of big spending and materialism. The characters in the novel all seemed to have dominantly bad traits except for Nick. F. Scott Fitzgerald had a reason for putting these things into the novel. The purpose of the disturbing instances in the Great Gatsby is to give the reader a realistic view of the culture of the 1920's , and to allow the reader to decide how they feel about characters that seem to have no positive traits.

There were many instances in The Great Gatsby that helped defined the attitude and character of the 1920's, a time of excess and desire for extravagance. A very good representation of this are the parties that Gatsby held. They were very lavish parties that attracted many people, some who didn't know Gatsby and some Gatsby didn't even know. The people there were the ones who were materialistic, into big spending, excess, and extravagance. This was very disturbing

One character who was especially disturbing but persuaded the reader to think about them was Gatsby. By a brief summary of the novel you feel sorry for him because he was a rag to riches story, was very successful, held many parties, loved Daisy, was killed, and then no one attended his funeral. But in perspective he actually had a lot of faults. Gatsby's love for Daisy is mistaken. It is not just love but a disturbing obsession. One instance was when Gatsby had just been dropped off in the driveway and Nick told him to come to bed, Gatsby replied: "I want to wait here until she goes to bed." (153)

because people used these parties to boost their social standing and acceptance. As Nick said, "Sometimes they came and went without ever having met Gatsby at all, they came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission" (45)

The characters of The Great Gatsby were disturbing in the fact that they were described throughout the novel as people with many faults ranging from drinking, brutality, materialism, and racism. Fitzgerald introduced these characters in this disturbing manner to allow the reader to decide how they would feel about characters with an enormous lack of ethics.

As the novel developed, the reader got a more detailed sense of the 1920's culture and way of

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