Theme Of Identity In The Great Gatsby

In society, many people wear masks on top of the real identity. Everybody has a genuine identity but when they put a mask on it hides them from reality. This is not how people should live their lives but it happens everyday. This topic relates directly to the book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this book, Gatsby does what the majority of society does and wears a mask to change his identity. In his case, his identity is based off of the ideal of a girl he fell in love with. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writing, he connects to the two ideas of identity and masks through the character of Gatsby in order to show Gatsby’s ideals of