mportant responsibility to the other.On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the saddened love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, has little to do with a love story. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months in the summer of 1922 and is set in a small area near Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby is a largely symbolic display of America in the 1920s. One of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old upper classes of the country's richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its inhabitants represent the newly rich, while East Egg and its population, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old ways of life. Fitzgerald thinks the newly rich are lacking in social skills and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in an enormous mansion, wears a pink suit, and drives a yellow Rolls Royce. These two different types of people gather for one large terrible crash.In conclusion, Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of declining social and moral values, which becomes obvious through that paths of each characters meaningless life. The characters become extremely confused in search of empty possessions. It is a time of deep confusion, especially for Mr. Gatsby, whose only want is to win the heart of his most beloved....
