Social criticism in The Great Gatsby and Great Expectations

Authors often use their works to convey criticisms of society. Such works of literature do not directly criticize specific real people or events. They do however present a sense of the writer's concern with issues of social injustice and misguided values. Two strong examples of social criticism through literature are Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In both novels the writers project their social criticisms to the reader …

…was critical of the social decline into greed and carelessness that faced 1920's jazz era America. Even though the American people had more than any other society before they still faced the inherent problems of being human thus capable of making the wrong choices. Fitzgerald proposed little in the way of reforming such problems realizing that he could only point them out with the literary criticism of his work and hope for a better future.