F. Scoot Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel about love and disillusionment. This novel was written in the "Jazz Age" when money, status and progress were very important for Americans. At the beginning of the movie I found two themes: The importance of the social classes and the moral decadence of the period.
On one side Fitzgerald's novel at the beginning notes the careless, and irresponsible happiness of the period. Fitzgerald shows that these people of the 1920's were hypocrite. Many of them at that time hope to accomplish the American dream. This novel describes the conflicts Americans were having with the actual social conditions that existed. America was suppose to be a country of democracy with an idea based on equality among people, but the truth was that social discrimination still
Finally the two themes shown at the beginning of the film, social class and moral decadency were present in the contemporary scene of the film. The Great Gatsby is a novel, which explores that emptiness at the center of things that lies just below the surface of modern life.
existed and the divisions among the classes can not be overcome yet. The wild extravagance of Gatsby's parties and the shallowness and pointlessness of his guests shows the upper class as careless and irresponsible people.
On another side the beginning of this novel comments on the moral decadence in modern American society. The Great Gatsby talks about the concern with corruption of values and the decline of spiritual life. This condition is related to the American d
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