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affected mostly the ones below them. Or it could also be that the people used those
social acts merely because they wanted to forget about the war.
On the other hand, theres a highlighted subject within the upper-classes world
and that is the description of the marriage and love. No fidelity or honesty or love is to
be found between the spouses of marriages in which Neither of them can stand the
person theyre married to so they secretly meet other peoples spouses although
everyone seems to know about those whereabouts.
Finally, one thing that makes me want to finish this book sooner than later is to
know whether the narrator is the main character therefore he is changed or helped by
this mysterious Mr. Gatsby or at the end it will result in a fly-on-the-wall narration in
which the real main character is to be Mr. Gatsby and Mr. Nick Carraway just tells us
about him as an observer. I would say, as for now, the first option is more plausible
since we are told too many things about Nick and too little about Gatsby. Nicks past
and the fact that he might have a love story with Miss Baker in the next chapters are
some examples of why I prefer to think so.
In conclusion, I think the writers purpose goes beyond telling us an interesting
story about the life of Mr. Gatsby or Mr. Carraway or any other character, but more of
describing in a critical and realistic way how he understood the society of that time and
also to criticize their shameless behavior on such a sensitive period of time. All the
ingredients described above makes the story a not so easy reading I would thought it
would be in the first lines that start similar to the classical once upon a time, because
the narrator starts describing his background. Nonetheless it changes to a not-so-typical
narration that I hope to be able to understand and enjoy at the end.