Hedonism In The Great Gatsby

During the summer of 1922, Nick drives to the East Egg to have dinner with his friend Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy, and there he meets Jordan Baker, who becomes a romantic interest. Later in the summer, Nick and Jordan meet over tea, and Jordan tells him that Jay Gatsby had met and fallen in love with Daisy before World War I, and soon the two fall in love again. On the drive home from a hotel, everyone but Gatsby and Daisy stumble upon a car accident in which Myrtle, Tom’s mistress, had been killed. Tom believes Gatsby had been driving, but Nick learns it was Daisy. Sometime later, Nick finds Gatsby’s body in his pool after being shot to death, presumably by Myrtle's husband. After this, Nick decides to move back home to Minnesota. The night before he leaves, he walks on Gatsby’s beach, saying that like Gatsby, all people must
The Jazz Age was directly after World War I, and as a result morals were changed and often focused on hedonistic lifestyles. In The Great Gatsby, this morality is represented through characters such as Gatsby, who materializes love by buying a mansion. The Jazz Age was also defined by prohibition and the disregard for it. This element is seen in how Gatsby receives his fortune: bootlegging. The setting in a time of wealth, careless spending, and frivolous lifestyles is illustrated through the East Egg, Gatsby’s numerous parties, and the mood that surrounds Gatsby; it parallels the culture of the Jazz Age. Minor characters also line up with the Jazz Age through their fashion descriptions, music, dance, and alcohol taste. Most of the representation in Gatsby is seen in the tone of the book. Cynicism was a common theme during the Jazz Age, and is exemplified in the pages of this novel. The Great Gatsby is representative of the Jazz Age due to its reflection of the society from the 1920s though the characters and lifestyle