F Scott Fitzgerald used his novel The Great Gatsby to expose and decry many of the excesses of the roaring twenties. To do so Fitzgerald described the outrageous parties many of the wealthy would participate in or host, as well as describing how the impoverished lived. Then going on to describe the interactions between the rich and poor, along with the outcomes of such interactions.

One of the many examples illustrated by Fitzgerald would be the outrageous parties hosted by the namesake of the novel, Jay Gatsby. There were major instances debauchery at Gatby’s parties where one guest was even “drunk for about a week”, this guest was found by the narrator in the library trying to sober himself, but was so scatterbrained from the aftereffects