I now have this, but I think I want to extend it a bit:
After having done some research, I have come to the conclusion that F. Scott Fitzgerald has written the Great Gatsby in order to portray and criticize the American society in 1920, the era that Fitzgerald himself called the "Jazz Age".
Following the shock and chaos of WWI, the American society enjoyed prosperity during the R
Through Gatsby, he satirizes how newly wealthy Americans acted, when many of them were only interested in big, extravagant things. They were obnoxious and did not have the same class as those who were wealthy before that time.