THE GREAT GATSBY MOTIFS

The settings epitomize the different aspects of 1920s American Society e.g.

• East= Aristoc &also moral decay and social cynicism of NY  West= newly rich, trad social vals

• Valley of Ashes = moral and social decay of America

• New York = amoral quest for money and pleausre (Myrtle!)

• G+D reunion in the rain = awkward and meancholy, love rewakens when sun comes up

• G+T climatic confrontation, hottet day of the year !

• Wilson kills G on first day of Autumn; chill in the air - a symbolic attempt to stop time and restore his relationship with Daisy to the way it was five years before, in 1917.