The American short story writer and novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald is very famous for his depiction of era after WW1, which was called later Jazz age, in most of his writings and his novels, The Great Gatsby is considered the most evocative of the Jazz age. F. Scott. Fitzgerald, in his novel The Great Gatsby (1925), like most writers of 1920, exposes the social reality and how this behavior effected the society and the family. Gatsby, the protagonist, is not satisfied with his life and he tries to follow his desire so he lived in disappointment until death. The secure supportive family life, the familiar, settled community, the sustaining sense of patriotism and moral values, which were inculcated by religious beliefs and observation, all seemed undetermined by ww1 and its aftermath. Western youths were rebelling, angry and disillusioned with the savage war in which the older generation had held. American abroad absorbed these views and portrayed all these things in their writing. Fitzgerald portrays some types of American family who spend their times amusing themselves and enjoying such as Daisy and Tom ,Myrtle and George husbands and wives ,both two families are in decay and degeneration which makes the meaning of family is absent of these families. They spend their times in parties and drinking. In this novel, Myrtle is a wife cheating her husband and in relation with Tom and others, unhappy …show more content…
Children during this period brought in this society to live in environment was predominately materialistic. This economic boom had its impact on the society which make David Potter states in his book People of Plenty and