Moral Discrimination In The Great Gatsby

The main character who came from the West Egg, Gatsby, spent his life trying to attain money and status to get Daisy, and in order to achieve his desire he made money by all means. Through Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicted the difficulty to keep away from the moral contamination in a material world in which the man is valued only by his wealth and status. On the other hands, Tom, Daisy, and Miss Baker are carless people as they look down on others because they Lead an easy and comfortable life. By describing those characters, Fitzgerald criticized that era of the roaring twenties. Fitzgerald coined the phrase “the Jazz age” .Jazz Age was the time of change where more freedom was given and where old morals decayed. Kochan (2007) argued
that The Great Gatsby is “not simply a chronicle of the Jazz Age but rather a dramatization of the betrayal of the naïve of the American dream in a corrupted society” (p.2). Fitzgerald used the first- person narration through Nick to make critical judgment about class and social stratification in the United State. He presented