The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald was the quintessential example of literature that displayed the corruption in the 1920s. The main quality I liked about The Great Gatsby is was the way Fitzgerald was able to take a story that seemed like a normal love story and turned it into much more. I choose this piece of literature because it gives you an outlook on what the time period felt like. Fitzgerald was creative in his composition but at the same time was able to get a serious message through.
Fitzgerald uses the character Nick to observe the two sides of the problem pres