"The Great Gatsby"

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The paper depicts how the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" act out of frivolous, hedonistic and selfish motives. The paper discusses how Fitzgerald's characters identify the occurrence of moral faux pas but fail to grasp the underlying reasons for why these mistakes violate social mores. The paper illustrates how Fitzgerald manipulates his characters to represent the lack of satisfactory ethical comprehension in the 1920s and to foretell an inevitable change for the better.

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"In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters stand on the brink of moral awareness, identifying the occurrence of moral faux pas but failing to grasp the underlying reasons for why these mistakes violate social mores. This misalignment of motives illustrates the 1920s as a hollow shell of conventional human reaction to distressing situations. To paint a fuller portrait of the twenties, Fitzgerald supplements these reactions by providing examples of remorseless immoral behavior and, in the final chapters of the book, by providing evidence of reformation of character."

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