Relationships In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The 1920’s were an interesting time in U.S. history. Women were exercising more of their rights, the prohibition act came into play and crime was on a rise. In The Great Gatsby you can see social break down very clearly throughout the book. The ones that stood out from the rest to me was about the breaking vowels and promises of marriage or friendship. In the book we find two lovely couples driven by the desires of others; so, they were torn apart from each other as they broke the binding of marriage. We also see friendship rotting away as people turn against one another, often seeing the worst in them instead of the best. With tempers rising the lies are thrown at each other, their relationships are at a boiling point. “I hope she'll
be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” -Fitzgerald17 At the beginning of the book we find out that Tom is having an affair on his wife. This action shows the readers of one way this book has social break down in it. Not only is he cheating, but he's proud of the fact that he has another woman. He’s breaking his promise he made to his wife and feels great about it. Not only that, but his mistress is married to Mr. Nelson. Which means that she is breaking the promise of marriage, she made with her husband. You can start to see the hurt and betrayal Daisy feels as she goes to the comfort of Mr. Gatsby. As you get further into the book you start to see a relationship between Daisy.
As Daisy gets closer to Gatsby we start to see Tom getting jealous of Gatsby to the point he starts to investigate. We start to realize that Daisy never really grew up and is still more like a child. We see this in chapter seven when Daisy confesses to loving both Gatsby and Tom. Tom then decides to send Daisy and Gatsby home while he drinks alcohol in a different car. Daisy ends up running over Myrtle, Tom’s mistress,. In the end Gatsby takes the blame and loses everything. We see not social break down not only with the love triangle of Daisy, Gatsby and tom but also causing a death of two people because of the lack of trust and poor decisions everyone had made. The book ends with two deaths, Myrtle and Gatsby, and Nick who left to get away from the disgust of all that happened. This book had many more examples of social breakdown, but I only discussed of one, breaking of vows in marriage and friendship. I could have done, how they broke the law by drinking or about the different secrets that Gatsby had. Instead I chose To talk about breaking the bonds because it is what started off the book and continued that way to the very end. Trust is very important to marriage and friendship, without it we would be alone
forever.