1. The Great Gatsby and America in the 1920's
When World War I ended in 1918 several young Americans who had fought in the war returned to America with a heightened disillusion of reality, as the horrors of the war made everyday life and social morality of the early 1900's seem trivial. ... The location of the eggs, out on long island, displays the significance of urbanization and the rise of suburbia of the 1920s; people who desired to have spaciousness homes and the nature of small town life while having the access to the glamorous city life could achieve this. ... Another character that exhibits the looser moral values of the time...
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