“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” Jordan’s statement justifies the illusion the wealthy class bestows. At small parties, one-dimensional personalities are laid bare, whereas large parties accommodate to the masquerade they use to bypass the naked truth.Fitzgerald encountered this in his own life. He conveys the irony of the parties and elaborate lifestyles through the novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald encompasses the reality of the roaring twenties by dramatizing the lack of morals, exposing the careless mindset of the wealthy, and revealing the distorted illusion of happiness.
The traditional values and virtues of the previous eras have been replaced with amorality and fornication. For instance, Tom Buchanan knows that Daisy has no way out of their marriage, so he openingly has an affair. His mistress, Myrtle is also stuck in a loveless marriage, thus leading her to act upon her sexual desires with Tom The fact that people of this era, an example being Tom and Daisy, only marry for status and riches and not for love, leads spouses
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In particular, after the death of Jay Gatsby, none of the hundreds of partygoers or even his closest friends attended the funeral.This is ironic in the sense that he lived this pretentious, lavish lifestyle, yet his funeral lacked the luster and grandeur the populous parties he had hosted once had . Nick was only one who does not run off when the aftermath of their summer commences and is left as Gatsby’s only true friend. As Nick states ”they were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smash up things and creatures and then retreat back into their money.” This suggests that when actions that could be detrimental to their social status are threatened, they flee to avoid the truth.They do this solely to keep up the illusion that everything is