Moral Corruption in The Great Gatsby

Through step up the The owing(p) Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the decaying of hearty and moral determine through his use of symbolism and characterization. During the totality of novel, symbolism is utilise as a fomite of depravity. Fitzgerald illustrates the decaying ethics and morals upheld by those of the era with a capacious variety of unexpected figures. In Chapter 2, Fitzgerald brings Nick and Tom to new-sprung(prenominal) York so that Nick burn down meet Toms girl. While in New York the three go to Toms flat tire hes bought specifically for his affair. At 158th Street the nag stopped at mavin slice in a long white bar of flatbed houses (Fitzgerald, 32). The use of the battle cry taproom places a distinguishable emphasis on the apartment and makes the reader analyze it in the form of food. Generally, because a cake has an attractive appearance from the distant with the frosting and decorations, the inside of it is all told different. The apartment bui lding in New York holds up to that symbolism of the literal cake in the sense that from the outside it has a white color, which means morally unblemished, though on inside, its overly furnished so that to move about was to pitch continually(Fitzgerald, 33). \nIt develops apparent with the apartment that everything is for appearance and it all has become a façade. During Chapter 3, the many lot at Gatsbys society all symbolize the decaying social values that are assay to be sustained in the summer of 1922. With all of the intoxicated debauchery amidst the amusement parking lot of a party, a eagerness of girls in jaundiced dresses go out. A pair of pointedness twins- who turned out to be the girls in yellow- did a fry act in rig out and champagne was served in bigger than finger bowls (Fitzgerald, 51). Having the two girls wear yellow in the novel, Fitzgerald places an emphasis on moral corruption they issue at Gatsbys party. Their baby act in costume also shows the l iteral venee...