Social Breakdown In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” This quote by Nick, the narrator, represents the aspects of social breakdown. Social breakdown is a modernism characteristic that can be found in many modernist works, and is especially enforced in The Great Gatsby. Things people do that are not considered normal in society’s eyes can lead to their downfall. The characteristic of social breakdown can be seen as the breakdown of a person or society to change for the worse. In the Great Gatsby, social breakdown can be seen throughout the novel, and affects the events that happen in this story. The narrator of this story can be seen changing himself for the worse, getting drunk with Tom in the beginning,