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Social Significance Reflected in The Great Gatsby 　　Abstract： This paper mainly analyzes the novel in four steps. Firstly， it introduces background informations about the author， the background and the main characters in the novel. Secondly， it explains social factors to Gatsby’s failure. Thirdly， it elaborates the social significance reflected. Lastly， it gives a brief conclusion. 　　Key Words： Jazz Age； American Dream； cruelty； coldness 　　1 Introduction 　　1.1 The author F. Scott Fitzgerald 　　F. S. Fitzgerald was one of the most famous novelists of the 1920s’ America. His works were indisputable products of the so-called Jazz Age of the 1920s， and The Great Gatsby leaped over times， reaching backward into gothic decadence and forward into the future of a rapidly decaying America. He not only described the nightmare of the American confused， wild and restless generation between the decade from the end of the large war to the outbreak of the economic crisis （the Jazz Age）， but also closely associated his deep insights with the article’s art in his unique style. 　　1.2 The social background of the novel 　　At the end of the First World War American moral sense experienced big changes and a quite important development of literature came into being-the trend of modernism， when a new group of writers called “the lost generation” who were against previous concept and values， but were for despair or a cynical hedonism. With the unprecedented development of American economy， America became the leader of capitalist countries in the world and American literature was featured by evanescence with ideals and further progress of civilization the capitalist countries advocated. American dream in that era， in fact， was directly and almost a dream for money. 　　1.3 Characters in the novel 　　Jay Gatsby，is the main role and the most striking person in the novel. He was born poor and became a young officer during World War I when he met with Daisy and got obsessed with her. Ho