Americans in the 1920s spent a lot of time at parties, changing social customs, and creating a new America. Others worked hours on end and lived poorly. The Great Gatsby, written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a prime example of what most life was like for white Americans at the time. Fitzgerald creates a perspective of an upper middle-class white man living in the wealthier parts of New York. Fitzgerald critiques the wealthy Americans and the American Dream using characters and events from the novel. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald criticizes wealthy Americans by using characters like Tom Buchanan. Wealthy Americans in the 1920s had little regard for other Americans usually only caring much about themselves. “Normal” Americans created