In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a literary classic contrasting Western morals and Eastern corruption. It follows the trail of a man, Nick, out of the West through the depraved and excessive society of the East during the Jazz age. His thoughts and feelings are the basic moralities that are ignored by people bent upon their individual pursuits of self-satisfaction. In the third chapter, Nick goes to a party thrown …showed first 75 words of 1361 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1361 total…effects of the alcoholic drinks. Fitzgerald reveals the actual natures of the wasteful and decadent rich in the 1920's under their concealing layers of glamour. The Great Gatsby shows the moral decay and profligacy of the people in the Jazz age. However, it changed with the onset of the Depression, which impoverishes many of the investors and brokers so common in this novel. The result is a morally strict 1950's America with its family values.