Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses an array of characters to depict different aspects of the 1920s. Occupations and lifestyles characters represent the corruption, recklessness and prosperity of the Roaring Twenties. Perhaps the most striking of this ensemble is the pompous bigot Tom Buchanan and the novel's namesake Jay Gatsby. Set in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on Long Island, New York, in the summer of 1922, the novel revolves around protagonist Nick Carraway as he moves to West Egg. Upon his arrival, he reconnects with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom. He also meets his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, and eventually learns that Gatsby is an admirer of Daisy who is desperate to seduce her husband. Daisy's two love interests are dimensional characters whose personalities are seemingly opposite; while Tom and Gatsby are contrasting, Daisy is one of the two men's few common interests. Both Gatsby and Tom share a sense of moral corruption. Tom is an adulterer; he gets involved in a business...