Moral Changes In The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, F. Stott Fitzgerald shows the change in America’s morals in the “Jazz Age” using characters like, Daisy, Gatsby, Tom, and Myrtle. The Great Gatsby, shows the change in our society after World War I, by using characters who had changed over time. This time period known as the “Jazz Age”. During this time America’s morals were changing and society was changing as well. The first appearance of morals changing, is when Tom is cheating on Daisy with Myrtle showing that husbands were not staying faithful to their wives and families after World War I. The second show of America morally changing, is when Gatsby is having a party. Before the war women would stay home and alcoholic beverages were frowned upon, However, in the “Jazz Age” women and men went to parties, drank, and danced at all hours of the night. Also, during “The Golden Twenties”, divorce rates went up, due to American morally changing their way of living life. In addition to the fall of family life, Fitzgerald shows America’s decline through illegal activities that created notorious criminals who obtained celebrity status through immoral actions like Gatsby. Although a novel about love and dreams, the bigger picture shows that the theme of this book is to show moral change in America in the Jazz Age.
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows the change of america 's morality by showing Toms …show more content…
He uses Gatsby’s parties to show the moral change in the way parties were handled and used adultery in part of that to show how the two correlated together. Fitzgerald also used the moral change of bootlegging to show what a man would do to achieve his “american dream”. Fitzgerald does not elaborate or show this is the true meaning of his novel but it is clearly seen in the text that almost every character had or saw a moral change over