The 1920s was an eventful century that is memorable to this day of what it has brought to the Americans. Different states of wealth gave such revolting influences and alteration towards one another’s positions in life. The years of 1920s was known as several different things such as The Sexual Revolution, Prohibition, The Jazz Age and The Harlem Renaissance, Entertainment and Pop Culture, and distinctly, The Lost Generation. In the case of Great Gatsby, it is power and privileges of the relationships.
The American authors & media paid massive attention towards the stereotypes about the 1920s from reality, which causes these two factors difficult to be distinguished from each other, F. Scott Fitzgerald reprobate the superficiality and material excess of the American culture before war, showing the prosperity that went wrong in the wealthy society of New York; this can be
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Possession is one of the sources of conflicts in the relationships of the Great Gatsby. Tom Buchanan considers Myrtle Wilson and Daisy Buchanan to be his “possessions”. In page 150, “(…) a small, expensive dog-leash, made of leather and braided silver.” Tom bought Myrtle a dog leash which symbolises the fact that he controls the relationship between him and Myrtle. George Wilson cannot afford to buy such luxurious jewellery while Tom can. The dog and collar shows the relationship between Tom and Myrtle where in the outside it may seem appealing but on the inside the dog carries the bad things and how nothing good can come from negative actions, like Myrtle’s death. Tom treats her as a possession, deciding when and where to meet. He also chooses what Myrtle can speak about when he “broke her nose with his open hand” (page 39). Daisy is also seemed as a possession of Gatsby and Tom because of their argument towards who can keep her, “she never loved you”, “she’s leaving you.” , “she’s not leaving me” (page 124 –