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Truth In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The 1920s brought both change and excitement with the emergence of jazz music, improved economic developments, new communication technologies, flapper culture as well crime to those living in the United States. Based on his own experiences and struggles with both love and wealth, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in an attempt to present a true picture of American society after the end of the First World War. Fitzgerald tackles the issue of how often people are unable to accept their true identity, so they put themselves into a false reality that they believe is true. Even with the creation of the false reality, there are moments when the true truth comes out. Throughout the first four chapters there are moments of truth that appear in spite …show more content…

It is a family tradition. After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe--Paris, Venice, Rome--collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself, only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life." Fitzgerald 65-66. Gatsby shares in conversations with Nick that he went to college at Oxford, and that he was from a midwestern town, San Francisco. He details his participation in WWI, and that he had received a promotion to the rank of major, as well as being awarded many medals by several European countries. He states that he came from wealth which was not true as evidenced by where he was living in West Egg indicating that wealth was earned not born. It is true that he served in the military but mostly was motivated to join in order to become wealthy. Later, another truth shown with Gatsby is at the end of Chapter 4. Jordan tells the story of how Daisy and Gatsby met, specifically how they dated in Louisville and how it ended when Gatsby went to

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