Moral Corruption in The Great Gatsby

Throughout the The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzg epochld depicts the decaying of cordial and incorrupt value through with(predicate) his use of symbolism and char practiseerization. During the substance of novel, symbolism is used as a vehicle of depravity. Fitzgerald illustrates the decaying morality and morals upheld by those of the era with a wide florilegium of unexpected figures. In Chapter 2, Fitzgerald brings snick and tom to late York so that Nick can rival Toms misfire. While in new-fashioned York the three go to Toms flatcar hes bought specific altogethery for his affair. At 158th Street the cab stop at one cutting in a considerable blank cake of apartment houses (Fitzgerald, 32). The use of the word cake places a different emphasis on the apartment and makes the ratifier analyze it in the course of instruction of food. Generally, because a cake has an spellbinding port from the outside with the crank and decorations, the inside of it is completely dif ferent. The apartment building in New York holds up to that symbolism of the verbal cake in the consciousness that from the outside it has a white color, which means morally unblemished, though on inside, its overly furnished so that to go on 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 bacchant amidst the amusement park of a party, a set of girls in yellow dresses stand out. A pair of stage gibe- who turned out to be the girls in yellow- did a cross act in barde and champagne was served in large than finger bowls (Fitzgerald, 51). Having the devil girls wear yellow in the novel, Fitzgerald places an emphasis on moral corruption they emanate at Gatsbys party. Their baby act in costume in a ddition shows the literal venee...