... Gatsby gave his name as Jay Gatz. Cody took him on the yacht to a trip in Barbary Coast and West Indies, where Gatsby gained a window into the life of the wealthy and famous. Nick notes that Cody and his yacht represented to Gatsby, "all the beauty and glamour in the world." (106) Cody was also a heavy drinker and one of Gatsby's jobs as a Personal Assistant was to take ... it by many readers and literature scholars, is that it is the eyes of God looking at the moral decay of the 1920's- the returning generation of Americans who had returned from fighting in World War I had experienced ...

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