The Great Gatsby Study Guide - 0 views
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New York City is a symbol of what America has become in the 1920's : a place where anything goes, where money is made and bootleggers flourish, and where the World Series can be fixed by a man such as Meyer Wolfsheim.
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The wealthy families in the novel such as Gatsby or the Buchanans, were always trying to impress rather than trying to be themselves.
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The morals of people with great wealth seem to be less than desirable, but many times are more socially accepted than lower classes.
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Discusses appearance vs reality and talks about the hypocrisy of the morality of the time period: rich people can have the poorest morals of everyone, yet it is more acceptable than poor people with good morals
