The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about a man by the name of Jay Gatsby, trying to win the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan, but his background eventually destroys him.
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a horrendous novel due to its attack on social classes, the American dream, and going against traditional and religious values. The attack on social classes is shown through characterization by displaying the upper class as full of bootleggers, adulterers, and racists. The novel´s antagonization of the American dream is shown through theme showing that a man who started from scratch makes millions and it leads to his own downfall. The plot of The Great Gatsby also goes against traditional and religious values by making the novel about two lovers having an affair. …show more content…
Three of the main characters in the novel were adulterers who all happened to be wealthy, Tom Buchanan was cheating on Daisy with another woman, and Daisy and Gatsby were both having an affair. In the book, Tom expressed racism by claiming that intermarriage between black and white was a threat. With these negative depictions of the upper class, activists would claim the upper class as corrupt and could possibly lead up to