Gatsby
Jazz Age Disillusionment in the Great Gatsby
The 1920s saw the United States undergo one of its most dramatic periods of cultural and social evolution in its young history to that point. With the end of hostilities in World War I and the focus on its own internal growth now taking center stage, the emergence of a distinctly American kind of wealth began to achieve prominence. Even as this measure of wealth would become yet more prominent in America, the disillusionment thereby associated would also become ever greater a presence. So is this well-demonstrated in the primary characters populated F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 Jazz Age masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Using the occasionally objective Nick as a lens, Fitzgerald views the characters of Tom, Daisy and Gatsby himself with an unflinching criticism that seems to scold America for its burgeoning materialism.
Among them, Tom is perhaps the most unflinchingly archetypal character...
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