In the story ‘The Great Gatsby’, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme: ‘illusion of appearance against reality’ to portray certain characters and their common misconceptions towards what is in fact to be real through actuality, and what appears real due to the characters living in their own distorted reality, which can be based off of the character’s perception. Throughout the time period F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the story ‘The Great Gatsby’, there were a variety of components that influenced the layout of the story, and the certain attitudes or shifts in attitudes that are embedded in the characters from ‘The Great Gatsby’. An example of how certain time periods, such as the one F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in while writing ‘The Great Gatsby’ that pans out certain events, and attitudes from certain characters throughout ‘The Great Gatsby’ would be how F. Scott Fitzgerald uses allusion by referring towards ‘The Great War’, which was involved throughout the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby, and how it affected the relationship between both characters before and after the war. ‘The Great War’ was an extremely detrimental factor towards Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship, especially after the war occurred, due to them both being detached from the relationship which they have established prior to the war, which led towards the grandest illusion from this story: which is the love Daisy and Gatsby have for one another. Fitzgerald also promotes the usage of irony when the