Comparing The Great Gatsby And The Roaring Twenties

The Great Gatsby And The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties were full of marvels and mysteries; good and bad. The truth in society is unveiled in The Great Gatsby in terms of wealth and The American dream. The rich people in the story are extremely wealthy, and what they say about their backstory may not be what it is in reality. Rich people have easy lives in terms of money, but the middle class and lower class workers must to toil to make ends meet. There are times where it is ugly for the poor, and Fitzgerald makes it clear. Fitzgerald also makes it clear that there really is no American Dream, or at least, The American Dream is not what it is hyped up to be. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby shows the many faces of society in the Roaring Twenties and reveals the dark truth under them. The great Jay Gatsby, looked up to by his peers as rich and powerful, but is also a very mysterious man. Not many of the party goers have ever met him. Gatsby is a very wealthy man, and the origin of him and his money is unclear. He claims to have gone to Oxford, but Tom dug into his past and found he was not a full time student at Oxford:
‘And you found he was an Oxford man,’ said Jordan helpfully.
‘An Oxford man!’ He was incredulous. ‘Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit.’” (Fitzgerald, 122)
Gatsby is a very smart man, but his only
Gatsby may have acquired his money by selling alcohol, and that is why he needs to keep a very secretive life. In order to attain his dream, he needed to perform illegal activities. Gatsby is a very mysterious man and he sometimes can not keep to his fictitious stories of his wealth. In a quote from The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, catches himself making a mistake of his story and does not correct himself well enough for Nick to believe, but Gatsby is a powerful man and Nick acts like he glances over