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Casey Byrd
Period 4
February 21, 2008

Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby

Comparing how life is like in this present day to back in the 1920s, it's easy to see how society has changed; the ways and standards of the people back then have changed predominately. The economy was booming and with World War I taking place, this time period had an affect on the young people of its decade. An example of this would be F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his time, those who were coming of age were named "The Lost Generation". Fitzgerald himself was going through harsh growing up conditions and living with the new rise of social classes. One of his greatest works, The Great Gatsby, offers a great example to what the times and people of the ‘20s were all about, including major Marxism, romance, tragedy, and the everyday life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's character Daisy Buchanan in the novel The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of a woman in the 1920s. Married to a wealthy man, Daisy is portrayed as a......

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