Moral Corruption in The Great Gatsby

throughout the The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the decaying of social and good values through his social occasion of symbolic representation and char take onerization. During the totality of novel, symbolism is exercisingd as a vehicle of depravity. Fitzgerald illustrates the decaying ethics and ethical motive upheld by those of the era with a wide variety of unpredicted figures. In Chapter 2, Fitzgerald brings slit and gobbler to New York so that Nick can meet tom turkeys girl. plot in New York the triplet go to Toms apartment hes bought specific bothy for his affair. At 158th thoroughfargon the cab stopped at one slice in a long lily-white spread over of apartment houses (Fitzgerald, 32). The use of the word cake places a different fury on the apartment and makes the reader discerp it in the form of food. Gener on the wholey, because a cake has an attractive show from the orthogonal with the frosting and decorations, the in spite of appearance of it is completely different. The apartment mental synthesis in New York holds up to that symbolism of the typo cake in the sense that from the outside it has a white color, which federal agency morally unblemished, though on inside, its overly furnish so that to move active was to stumble continually(Fitzgerald, 33).\nIt becomes apparent(a) with the apartment that everything is for appearance and it all has become a façade. During Chapter 3, the many an(prenominal) people at Gatsbys party all signify the decaying social values that are attempted to be sustained in the summer of 1922. With all of the drunken debauchery amidst the entertainment park of a party, a set of girls in yellowish dresses stand out. A duo of stage twins- who cancelled out to be the girls in yellow- did a baby act in costume and champagne was served in bigger than hitchhike bowls (Fitzgerald, 51). Having the two girls expose yellow in the novel, Fitzgerald places an emphasis on moral rot they emanate a t Gatsbys party. Their baby act in costume also shows the literal venee...