hey have at the parties and don't even inquire the names of Jordan and Nick who they are so openly speaking with."Do you come to these parties often?' inquired Jordan of the girl beside her.' The last one was the one I met you at,' answered the girl in an alert, confident voice. She turned to her companion: 'Wasn't it for you Lucille?' It was for Lucille too. 'I like to come,' Lucille said 'I never care what I do, so I always have a good time." (Fitzgerald 47)Lucille admits that her general attitude toward life is that she does not care what she does as long as she has a good time. Her entire motivation in her life is to enjoy herself. When all she was asked was if she came to the parties often she also felt the need to inform the rest of the guests of her trivial anecdote. The reason that these women are indicative of the generation is because of their self—absorbed characters and egotistical nature.Also, the food served at Gatsby's parties symbolize the attitudes of most people living in the 1920's. At Gatsby's parties, most of the food was just show and no one really ate it. People display Large amounts of expensive food at parties to subtly remind the guests how much money they have, which is exactly what Gatsby did and the food was wasted. This incredible wastefulness is representative of people who lived in the 20's. They were so extremely wasteful because they assumed with all they had gone through, they deserved to be. After so many years of being unhappy and repressed from, among other things World War I, they thought it was okay to become carefree when indeed it was not. Through Fitzgerald's use of symbolism to describe the costumed characters of the 20's the reader can learn to constantly and conscientiously examine the people that they surround themselves with. The novel also teaches the lesson of being true to one's self and following one's own personal dream, not the one Americans are programmed to have. Fitzgerald i...
