Morality In The Great Gatsby

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Morality is something important that every society should keep into account. Otherwise, people’s lives could turn into fake. Therefore, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a good example of how morality is portrayed throughout the story in some characters’ behaviors. First, discrimination and racism are some of the immoral aspects that are represented in this novel. For example, it can be seen when Tom Buchanan says Civilization’s going to pieces. I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things… The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be utterly submerged… It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things. (Fitzgerald, p.17) That is, the character named Tom Buchanan believes that there is only one race that is important in the world, and the other ones that are not “Nordic” as he says (Fitzgerald, p.18) are races of less value than those ones that are white. Also, discrimination can be identified when Daisy mentions “All right… I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (Fitzgerald, p.21) It means that women in some manner used to be discriminated in the 1920’s. Besides, all she mentions can be seen as something that portrays herself. Because in some stage in her life she feels discriminated at the time she is in love with Gatsby, so she cannot marry him because Daisy was wealthy and he does not. Another similar case can be seen when Jay Gatsby feels uncomfortable with his life before he becomes a millionaire. That is, Jay Gatsby changes in some sense whole his life into a “better one” alongside the high class people. It is because Gatsby feels discriminated for the reason that Daisy did not marry him just because he does not belong to the high class in that time. Consequently, he becomes a
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