F. Scott Fitzgerald 2

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…st. Even so, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath--much like Nick--and part of him longed for the moral center absent in his era (Brooks 35). In many ways, The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's attempt to confront his conflicting feelings for the Jazz Age, spurred on, like Gatsby, by his love for a woman who symbolized everything he wanted, and who led him toward everything he despised.