Echoes of The Sermon on the Mount in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
This paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby, we find Fitzgerald examining the moral emptiness of life in East Egg, Long Island and, by implication, modern society. Fitzgerald was a Catholic and although the novel is not overtly religious in tone, the reader may detect echoes of the Sermon on The Mount in its subtle condemnation of the materialistic, spiritually bankrupt world that Tom and Daisy Buchanan inhabit and which the likes of Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby aspire to. 2.5 pgs. 5 f/c. 1b.
