In the year 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, one of the greatest
             American novels. Based simply upon the effect of the jazz age, Fitzgerald's novel is about the love of Jay Gatsby for Daisy Buchanan. The narrator of the story is Daisy's cousin Nick. Other important characters include Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan and his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Jay's love for Daisy leads to the novel's climax, which ends with his brutal murder. Affairs between Jay and Daisy, and Tom and Myrtle convey Fitzgerald's theme of disillusionment by uncovering the moral hollowness of the characters and causes the corruption inherent to the underbelly of high society to surface. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby focuses on the disillusionment of how moral hollowness can lead to lower things, such as man's inhumanity to man, causing the characters to loose control of their dreams.
             The 1920's more so known as the "Roaring Twenties", was a fascinating era (Rayburn; A Decade of Giants). The world was changing. Entrepreneurs began mass production of the automobile. Women started working, smoking, wearing their hair bobbed and their skirts up to their knees (Rayburn; A Decade of Giants). Women like Fitzgerald's Daisy and Jordan began to assert their independence. Even with all this excitement, the Roaring Twenties was also filled with many problems. There was the prohibition, which outlawed drinking, and caused all speak-easies to be pad locked, but not all closed down (Rayburn; Real Deal). The rich were still able to go (breaking the law), where the poor could barely get some. Anti-immigration laws to keep all non-whites out were passed, reinforcing racial segregation policies (Rayburn; Real Deal). All of these things lead to the rise of the higher class and the secrets that characters like Gatsby and Tom kept hidden.
             In the first chapter of The Great Gatsby, Nick states what his father had said to h...