In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald criticized these wealthy people as his characters revealed their true personalities. The characters that Fitzgerald criticized were the characters Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Nick, and Jordan. All of these characters were rich. They had

all they could have. For instance when Tom and Daisy married Tom bought Daisy a very expensive pearl necklace. Not only that but they lived in a huge house. When Nick had visited their house he thought it was more elaborate than he had expected. It was a red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay (11). Tom could give anything to Daisy and as a result they were heavily materialistic.

As it turns out everyone went their separate ways. It seemed that the accepted social and moral behavior as regards to money had become out of hand and no one wanted to be responsible for any wrongdoings. As regards to these behaviors, Fitzgerald characterized the wealthy well for him was one of them too at one point.

Fitzgerald wanted to prove to his readers of the 1940 era that with all the money that the wealthy had, money resulted in problems and that even when people had problems, turning to money did not help. For example at the end of the novel Nick realized and stated "They

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