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The Great Gatsby: How Modern Is Our Society

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How Modern is Our Society Is our society today what we would call modern? It seems like it hasn’t really changed that much. Well it changed types of clothing, music, and other stuff like electronics, but is it really more what everyone would call modern. If a person were to go back in time from today to twenty, thirty, even maybe forty years ago would it seem just as modern as it is today. Some evidence for that question could be answered in the books, the Great Gatsby, the Glass Menagerie, and a more futuristic book called Harrison Bergeron. In the Great Gatsby it is a simple time in the nineteen-twenties where everyone just hangs out and parties all the time. They just care about living theirs lives to the fullest. Sure their lives were most likely different because it was a long time ago, but even though their lives were different that does not mean that our society today is more modern. The first couple of lines in the Great Gatsby says “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my head ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in the world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (Great Gatsby). The moral of that sounds like the some morals that some people teach others today. So if people back in the nineteen-twenties and people today have the same morals does that make our society more modern than theirs. …show more content…

A book that is again supposed to take place in the nineteen-twenties. Things are different in this book like the fact that there are gentlemen callers a younger man about high school age maybe a little older is working in a factory. Stuff like that is stuff that you don’t really see anymore, so it is different but is this book just as modern as any other book in this decade. The feeling and how strong they are is just a thing that makes our society just as modern as theirs

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