Setting: As it Prevails in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel of the 1920’s, a time of flamboyance, excessiveness, and ambiguity. To fully capture and document this atmosphere, Fitzgerald spent many a page concerned with detail. Such descriptions become a stimulus for the story, setting the mood and pace, the tendencies, strengths, and weaknesses. The characters are directly linked to their location. Indeed in The Great Gatsby, setting dominates the novel. Foremost, …showed first 75 words of 840 total…

…showed last 75 words of 840 total…clean up the mess they have made.” In conclusion, Fitzgerald uses setting dominantly to capture the times and reflect the natures, responsibilities, and classes of the characters in The Great Gatsby. As Nick recapped, “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all- Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.”