Moral Corruption in The Great Gatsby

Throughout the The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzg ageld depicts the decaying of social and virtuous determine through his use of symbolism and char comeerization. During the core of novel, symbolism is used as a vehicle of depravity. Fitzgerald illustrates the decaying ethical motive and morals upheld by those of the era with a wide contour of unexpected figures. In Chapter 2, Fitzgerald brings prick and gobbler to wise York so that Nick can spiel Toms misfire. While in clean York the three go to Toms flatbed hes bought specific every last(predicate)y for his affair. At 158th Street the cab halt at one while in a capacious gaberdine taproom of flat houses (Fitzgerald, 32). The use of the word cake places a different wildness on the apartment and makes the lecturer analyze it in the represent of food. Generally, because a cake has an prepossessing carriage from the outside with the chicken feed and decorations, the inside of it is completely different. The apartm ent building in New York holds up to that symbolism of the real cake in the star that from the outside it has a white color, which means morally unblemished, though on inside, its likewise furnished so that to print about was to stumble continually(Fitzgerald, 33). \nIt becomes apparent with the apartment that everything is for appearance and it all has become a façade. During Chapter 3, the many people at Gatsbys party all symbolize the decaying social values that are attempted to be sustained in the summer of 1922. With all of the drunken debauch amidst the amusement park of a party, a set of girls in yellow dresses stand out. A pair of stage check- who turned out to be the girls in yellow- did a coddle act in uniform and champagne was served in larger than finger bowls (Fitzgerald, 51). Having the dickens girls wear yellow in the novel, Fitzgerald places an emphasis on moral corruption they emanate at Gatsbys party. Their baby act in costume also shows the literal ve nee...