In the text Gatsby is a newly wealthy World War I veteran who has settled in “West Egg” after acquiring a large sum of money after the war. We later learn that Gatsby is deeply in love with Daisy and has received all of his money illegally in an attemp

Also the destruction of this American Dream is shown through Gatsby’s wild and decadent parties. In pursuit of his dream girl Daisy Gatsby would throw wild and drunken parties during the time of prohibition in order to attract her attention. Often at these illustrious gatherings Gatsby wold not join his guests, but he would stand or sit aside watching and waiting for his love so arrive. As revealed later in the novel, these parties exceed the boundaries of materialism and begin to decompose on all that is moral in the modern world. This parties now become large gatherings of the “Social Elite” and only those with the unsurpassed desire for money and pleasure instead of more moral and noble goals.

The 1920s were a time of great American corruption, greed, materialism and immoral values of the upper and middle class. Due to the vast corruption in the upper and middle classes the idea of the cla

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