The loss of self and the need for self-definition is a main characteristic of the roaring twenties ("Literature - Boundless”). This is a theme that is very well illustrated in The Great Gatsby ("The Roaring”). The Great Gatsby also reflects on topics as gender interaction in a mundane society ("Literature - Boundless”). In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s lavish parties, characterized by music, dancing, and illegal alcohol, are a representation of the corruption of society’s values, and are filled with guests only concerned with material things as they step further and further away from the moral values that once dictated the lives of those before them ("The Roaring”). F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s parties to illustrate the “roaring” twenties as a time of gluttonous people who have abandoned moral values. Because of the social influences in The Great Gatsby, the novel is often described as the epitome of the "Jazz Age" in American literature ("The
The loss of self and the need for self-definition is a main characteristic of the roaring twenties ("Literature - Boundless”). This is a theme that is very well illustrated in The Great Gatsby ("The Roaring”). The Great Gatsby also reflects on topics as gender interaction in a mundane society ("Literature - Boundless”). In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s lavish parties, characterized by music, dancing, and illegal alcohol, are a representation of the corruption of society’s values, and are filled with guests only concerned with material things as they step further and further away from the moral values that once dictated the lives of those before them ("The Roaring”). F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s parties to illustrate the “roaring” twenties as a time of gluttonous people who have abandoned moral values. Because of the social influences in The Great Gatsby, the novel is often described as the epitome of the "Jazz Age" in American literature ("The