1920s When The Fun Stops
... These negative characteristics clearly depict the society of the 1920s. ... Additionally Tom and Daisy Buchanan represent the 1920s through they’re desire for power, money, and control above all else. ... Thus many people in the novel give in to the materialistic ways of the 1920s. ... Social status is “society’s government”, is the cause of many problems in the 1920s. Possibly the most noticeable flaw of the 1920s is immorality. ... ” (Anonymous, no#) One person who most definitely was corrupt by nature and not by the 1920s was Tom.