Gatsby’s whole life is a facade invented to woo Daisy. Gatsby pretends to be a man who grew up wealthy. He throws crazy parties, carries his war medals in his pockets, and shows everyone a picture of him from Oxford. When Daisy emerges, this is all thrown away. Nick says that, “the whole caravansary had fallen like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes” (114). Alcohol is the last ironic object in The Great Gatsby. Alcohol can be found everywhere in the novel. Gatsby has alcohol at his parties, Tom has it at his apartment, and Daisy serves it at dinner. So what? Alcohol is everywhere in modern society, why not in the 1920’s? The 1920’s took place under Prohibition which prevented the creation, transportation, or consumption of alcohol. Unfortunately, alcohol remained widely used throughout the US in the 1920’s. The Great Gatsby is full of irony, from Daisy and Tom, to Gatsby, to
Gatsby’s whole life is a facade invented to woo Daisy. Gatsby pretends to be a man who grew up wealthy. He throws crazy parties, carries his war medals in his pockets, and shows everyone a picture of him from Oxford. When Daisy emerges, this is all thrown away. Nick says that, “the whole caravansary had fallen like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes” (114). Alcohol is the last ironic object in The Great Gatsby. Alcohol can be found everywhere in the novel. Gatsby has alcohol at his parties, Tom has it at his apartment, and Daisy serves it at dinner. So what? Alcohol is everywhere in modern society, why not in the 1920’s? The 1920’s took place under Prohibition which prevented the creation, transportation, or consumption of alcohol. Unfortunately, alcohol remained widely used throughout the US in the 1920’s. The Great Gatsby is full of irony, from Daisy and Tom, to Gatsby, to