The Great Gatsby F. Scoot Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel about love and disillusionment. This novel was written in the "Jazz Age" when money, status and progress were very important for Americans. At the beginning of the movie I found two themes: The importance of the social classes and the moral decadence of the period. On one side Fitzgerald’s novel at the beginning notes the careless, and irresponsible happiness of the period. …showed first 75 words of 564 total…

…showed last 75 words of 564 total…had as his guest in his luxurious parties are a representation of the shallow twenties. That very much included Daisy, as well as Tom. Finally the two themes shown at the beginning of the film, social class and moral decadency were present in the contemporary scene of the film. The Great Gatsby is a novel, which explores that emptiness at the center of things that lies just below the surface of modern life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**