Great Gatsby - Personalities of the Lost Generation

"Personalities of the Lost Generation"

One of the best writers of the Lost Generations is F. Scott Fitzgerald. He writes exceptionally well on this subject because he was also part of it. One of the many famous novels that he wrote was The Great Gatsby. The characters in this story represent the many different sides of the Lost Generation. The narrator, Nick, is caught between the two worlds, the world of moral corruption and the world that has meaning. Nick realizes the moral corruption of the wealthy and decides he must separate himself from them to reach personal maturity.

Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Nick’s cousin and her husband, are two of the most snobbishly wealthy people Nick knows. When Nick first introduces them, he states, “They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and drifted here an there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together” (Fitzgerald 6). Tom and Daisy are a major representation of the lost generation. They randomly float about because they