The Great Gatsby Setting Analysis

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During this time many Americans were uncomfortable with the new, urban culture, however, for a good number of young people in the nation’s most populous cities the 1920s was undeniably extravagant. In the Great Gatsby Scott Fitzgerald uses the four different settings in New York that portray various aspects of the American 1920s society through moral principles and imagery. East Egg representing the old aristocracy, West Egg representing the recently wealthy, the valley of ashes symbolising the moral and social decay of America, and New York City displaying the unrepressed, unethical quest for money and pleasure. In the novel, Fitzgerald uses particular symbols and imagery of the four contrasting settings and their inhabitants to depict their