Great Gatsby -Criticism of the Wealthy

The Great Gatsby Essay Fitzgerald highly criticized the wealthy in his novel The Great Gatsby as regards to accepted social and moral behavior. In it he revealed what many people during the era of the 1940’s were going through. The 1940’s was a time when people broke free of certain standards related to social and moral behavior and took on new ones. These people were discovering new things and along with that they abused the …

…whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made….(187)” As it turns out everyone went their separate ways. It seemed that the accepted social and moral behavior as regards to money had become out of hand and no one wanted to be responsible for any wrongdoings. As regards to these behaviors, Fitzgerald characterized the wealthy well for him was one of them too at one point.