How Does Fitzgerald Present Society In The Great Gatsby

Society Corrupts Innocence Society has been setting unrealistic standards for individuals for several years. During the 1920’s, when F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his novel, The Great Gatsby, society had specific social classes and standards. Social classes still exist today, but in a more obscure way than in Fitzgerald’s era. Social classes today are more based upon where an individual lives, but also include how much money that person earns. One thing that is shared between now and the era of Fitzgerald’s novel is that individuals are often judged by the size and glamour of the house the live in, and what area the house is located in. In modern times, society has a large effect on every choice a person makes and that is also true in the case of Gatsby. Individuals do things to satisfy what society says is “normal” for a fear of rejection. The things that are affecting individuals most harshly today,

Most girls will do anything to change how they look and this leads to a variety mental diseases such as anorexia, bulimia, and anxiety. In Gatsby’s case, society’s standards are that the only people considered “good” in the world, are rich people. This way of thinking drastically affects Gatsby’s way of life throughout the novel. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby chose the wrong dream of chasing after Daisy, which is due to society’s corruption of Gatsby. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby has love taken from him because of society’s rule of staying within one’s social class. Gatsby falls in love at a young age with a girl named Daisy. She likes him back and for a while, everything about their relationship is going smoothly, until the realization occurs that they live in different social classes. Gatsby is poor and he knows that unless he lies about his social