Theme Of Crime In The Great Gatsby

Crime is something that our society had had to deal with since the term “law” was coined. There are murders, robberies, and identity theft that happen everyday. When we think of crime, you could possibly imagine a schizophrenic man, or a jealous women who has a cheating husband. At times, crime is seen as an unorganized, and just randomly spout together process. But, in the standards of the 1920s, this was not the case. Many of mobsters, street gangs, and gangsters ruled the world behind the scenes, creating a cartel of illegal products and murder. A great amount of people may believe that these things never really happened, it all just stories and media. But mobsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano caused destruction and controlled America like a puppet. In the novel, “The Great Gatsby”, the themes and actions of illegal crime is put into a bright spotlight. It shows how organized crime influenced America during the alcohol porhibition.

As I stated, Al Capone and Lucky Luciano are two of the most well known mobsters through-out American history. However, no one knows the lesser known, dangerous ones.
In organized crime, nothing was left untouched. Especially in the roaring twenties, bootlegging was huge. As the prohibition was made law, making the purchase of alcohol illegal, the mafia began to make their own, creating a cheaper, better alcohol. This was a story that was discussed in “The Great Gatsby”, as that is where Gatsby gets all his funds from. But crime back then was not only bootlegging, men murdered, raped, and tortured anyone they could. It was mainly to get information.

The 1920s was the time for gangsters and mobsters alike. As Fitzgerald showed in “The Great Gatsby”, it was a huge influence of how people lived and how people gained money, and loyalty. In the novel, organized crime has a huge effect on the book, as if there wasn’t there, where would