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Since it seems that notions of a corrupt society were evident everywhere in the nineteen twenties, it is curious that the rest of society can not see the tragedy inherent in the life of Gatsby, the tragedy that is so clear to Nick. It is for ....

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... risk thoughtlessly their own lives and the lives of others. Nick states to Jordan, "You're a rotten driver. Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't drive." Jordan responds, "They'll keep out of my way. It takes two to make an accident." Fitzgerald attacks the motif of reckless driving vigorously, since it conveys precisely the vision he had of America. He saw twenties society as recklessly careless; the society was "driving on toward death through the cooling twilight." Through out the novel, Fitzgerald foreshadows the downfall of his own generation. At the heart of the most intense conflict in the novel, where Gatsby fi ...