One could contend that Fitzgerald composed the plot the way he did with the expectation of mirroring his perspective of an awesome disquietude defeating American culture; a plot that uncovered a pervasive vacuousness that debilitates to degrade cultivated men and ladies. This is maybe a demeanor encouraged by Victorian culture, brought into the new century. With that in mind, maybe the novel ought to have been entitled "The Troubled Twenties".
