In "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays a broad spectrum of themes ranging from justice and the attempt to achieve our goals to betrayal and corruption, to social separation based on wealth. This causes many people to see “The Great Gatsby” as a criticism of the materialistic society of the 1920s. Indeed, Fitzgerald shows how each social stratum has its own special problems and, in particular, discusses what dooms the richer stratum through the narrator, Nick Carraway's feelings of impending disaster. In chapter six, when Gatsby describes meeting Daisy, Nick reveals to the reader his concern that this will eventually lead to Gatsby's downfall. Throughout the book Fitzgerald uses strong rhetorical devices to show that Gatsby lives in the past, which he describes as the downfall of wealthy society through Gatsby's final downfall. When you read the passage describing Gatsby's overwhelming feelings, you get a strong sense that Carraway sees Gatsby's feelings clearly. internal world: even knowing that world better than Gatsby himself. Through this omniscient narrative perspective, the ...