The 1920s, sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or "the Roaring Twenties," were known as a time of social change in rural America. In many aspects of life, women and men were changing their previously accepted lifestyles and rapidly adopting lavish lifestyles. Emerging during the twentieth century, one of the most important writers of his time, F. Scott Fitzgerald, developed one of the greatest novels written, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald used his novels to reveal his feelings and opinions about the situation in the United States. He was known as a "Lost Generation" writer because his negative beliefs were known to be different from the rest of American beliefs. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald offers a critical idolatry of wealthy Americans, but shows the portrait of these Americans with unbridled materialism and lack of morality. In Fitzgerald's novel, he writes about relationships that go on and with these relationships lack the loyalty, self-indulgence, violence and disregard for morals they bring with them. The relationship between the main characters Daisy and Tom Buchanan is one of infidelity and lies. This loveless relationship consists of Tom cheating on Daisy with many women, one whose name is Myrtle, and Daisy cheating on Tom with Jay Gatsby. Tom is an aggressive man who, one day, shows his violence towards Myrtle when she teases him with Daisy's name. Even though Daisy knows about Tom's affairs, Daisy gives him a gold pen to show off to girls at parties. Jay Gatsby is another main character, determined to win back Daisy's love. Gatsby thus befriends his new neighbor Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, to get closer to Daisy. Nick Carraway is Daisy's cousin; that Gatsby is seen as a personal way to further his quest for Daisy. However, Nick realizes that her relationship with him is purely a way to benefit Gatsby, he remains his friend. As Nick takes a backseat to more complicated relationships, he meets a pompous woman, Jordan Baker, also known as "the level-headed girl." She and Nick become closer but Nick later discovers that Jordan has left him to get engaged to a richer man. Fitzgerald gives each relationship its own flaws and wrongdoings to describe the change in American life. This novel highlights the negative values, whether dishonesty, immorality, illegal or unethical activities, within each character..