Theme: One of the many themes in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is the shallowness and insincerity of the upper class and the newly made millionaires of the 1920s. Plot: Nick Carraway has graduated from Yale, fought in World War I and he has returned home to begin a career. He is restless and has decided to move to New York to learn about the bond business. The novel opens early in the summer of 1922 in …showed first 75 words of 782 total…

…showed last 75 words of 782 total…does not see them for who they are inside. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Nick says this. Tom and Daisy are also examples of how small minded and careless the people were of that time and place.