Great Gatsby
esssay The name of the author of The Great Gatsby is F. ... In many ways The Great Gatsby resembles F Scott Fitzgerald’s own life. The book The Great Gatsby is symbolic of America as a whole in the 1920’s. ... In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald portrays the 1920’s as an era of declining moral and social values. ... The Great Gatsby shows that the American Dream fails America as a whole due the fact that corruption is allowed. ... The Great Gatsby takes place during a time after World War I. ... Nick and Gatsby represent a worldly belief regarding events of the era as a result of going off and fighting in World War I. ... Gatsby, who lives on the west, proves to be just the opposite. ... Fitzgerald tells how Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy fails because their social backgrounds are very different. Gatsby has disillusioned Daisy to nothing less than perfect when she really is not.