He wrote the novel in a sense that the characters were a part of the same society as he was. During the 1920s people were extremely careless and were only worried about having fun, no matter the consequences. This is shown through the carelessness of the characters in the book, especially Tom and Daisy. Nick Carraway states in Chapter 9,“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made”(179). Fitzgerald was able to write the carelessness of his life and the lives of those around him into his
He wrote the novel in a sense that the characters were a part of the same society as he was. During the 1920s people were extremely careless and were only worried about having fun, no matter the consequences. This is shown through the carelessness of the characters in the book, especially Tom and Daisy. Nick Carraway states in Chapter 9,“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made”(179). Fitzgerald was able to write the carelessness of his life and the lives of those around him into his