Examples Of Fitzgerald's Critique Of The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald’s Criticism After World War 1 or “The Great War” the 1920s, mainly referred to as the roaring 20s, was a time of parties. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel written and is about Gatsby wanting to get Daisy back while Nick is just a spectator watching their love story happen with conflicts and such. Using various literary elements Fitzgerald criticizes the lack of morality, American Dream, and the wealthy in his novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald criticizes the lack of morality by using setting and symbolism to convey his critique. This is shown when Fitzgerald uses the setting of Gatsby’s parties to show the critique of their carelessness. Nick describes what he hears and sees happening at his neighbor’s
This means that Tom believes that the only way Gatsby could be rich is because he is a bootlegger. This matters because it shows how the American Dream is not attainable in an ethical way as all the newly rich people are just bootleggers which is not an ethical way of achieving the American Dream. Gatsby is later revealed to actually be a bootlegger which helped with becoming rich which is why Tom foreshadowing that Gatsby is a bootlegger is important. It is clear that many people in modern American society are not able to truly attain the American Dream. We as humans will always want more and this shows how we as humans are flawed and have many bad traits. Fitzgerald criticizes the Wealthy by using plot and setting to convey his critique. This is shown when Fitzgerald uses the conflict between Tom and Gatsby arguing over Daisy to show how the wealthy feel entitled. Gatsby is trying to get Daisy to tell Tom that she never loves him and she doesn’t say it so he exclaims, “She never loved you, do you
This matters because it shows how the wealthy feel they are entitled to things or people they are not entitled to. Gatsby feels he is entitled to Daisy’s love and that Tom is not, which shows how most people believed they were entitled to things that weren’t theirs just because they have money and power. To further support this, Fitzgerald uses the setting of Gatsby’s parties to demonstrate how the wealthy are careless. Nick was describing what he would see and hear at his neighbor’s house every weekend and says, “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves” (Fitzgerald 43). This means that every weekend Gatsby would order fruits for his parties he would have every weekend. This matters because it shows how Gatsby carelessly spends his money on parties every weekend for the past five years for Daisy. The parties Gatsby hosts represent how people in modern American society carelessly spend their money on one person just because of how they feel towards