Morality Depicted In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Over many years, people do things that get a lot of attention out of it. In other circumstances, there aren’t things that get much attention. Like in the 1920’s, things were so “normalized” or ignored. In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald shows how society in the 1920s did not have many morals through behaviors of characters like Tom cheating, Myrtle being murdered by Daisy, and Jay Gatsby through illegal business. Yet, it was all being socially accepted by everyone around because they just wanted to party. To begin, throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, many immoral things have happened and events you can but can’t explain. Every single character does something you didn’t expect. For example, a couple

There was nothing I could say, except the one unutterable fact that it wasn’t true” (Fitzgerald chapter 9). Tom was explaining to Nick Carraway that he had gone and talked to George Wilson and he had to tell him whose car it was, and who was driving. This is also when George finds out that Myrtle has a life outside of him. The police did nothing at that moment after knowing the car was yellow because of what George said he had seen. That is why George was asking Tom about who actually owned the car, and he took matters into his own hands. Knowing that her limps were discombobulated, no one seemed phased by it. Fitzgerald stated, “They had torn her shirtwaist, still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for a heartbeat. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored for so long” (Fitzgerald chapter 7). This shows that no one cared enough to even see if she could somehow be alive, but because of her physical appearance, they didn’t. They just covered her up and let her