The 1920's were a period when the economy was going through the roof and people were carefree and partying all over the place. Despite their accepting personality, many of these people were not as attracted to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as he had hoped. Some felt it was a masterpiece, yet it marked the beginning of a decline in Fitzgerald's career from which he would never quite recover. He was unable to write any books for about ten years after this failure started; as a result, he became quite unstable. This particular work of Fitzgerald's allowed the reader to relate to the events that occurred in it because it was a piece that associate to any time period. In this book, the setting consisted of various locations in New York. These were the places where the characters lives grew or diminished as they dealt with the things that took place in their lifetime. …
