Examples Of Greed In The Great Gatsby

The roaring 20’s a fast pace time known by its carless party lifestyle. With so many things happening in this time is was only right a book was written with so many 20’s ideals. The Great Gatsby embodies many ideas and philosophies of the 1920’s. Every single philosophy in this book made a part of the so called roaring 20’s. The most important one in The Great Gatsby is cheating. Cheating represents all the lies and the carelessness “lost generation” felt post WW1. Cheating an easy yet complicated topic, shown all throughout the book. Whether it was cheating on someone, cheating yourself, or the government. For example prohibition was one of the most cheated law at the time. Prohibition was the ban of manufacturing, transporting or selling of alcohol. Although this was the case, many still wanted to consume it so other people started to sell it illegally. Another word for it, bootlegging in this time came people like Al Capone. Cheating the law and selling alcohol illegally making money for themselves, which was money lost by the government. This was also shown in the book The Great Gatsby, by Gatsby himself. Although it was not clear Gatsby was a bootlegger, he was associated with those people. Tom Buchanan said "He and

They were brought to war with lies and came back to live there really. “With ideals shattered so thoroughly by the war, for many, hedonism was the result” said by kate O'connor, so although it seems the 20’s were all fun and parties but they were actually a time were all these people lived their cheated life based on a lie. Just like gatsby made huge parties with a hidden reason, the hidden reasons for the lost generation was to keep from reality, “Lost Generation writers revealed the sordid nature of the shallow, frivolous lives of the young and independently wealthy in the aftermath of the war” by Kate