While Fitzgerald pointed out many obvious human traits-snobbery, excessive romanticism, carelessness of others' feelings,
betrayal, and the shallow curiosity of other people's
dramas, as well as the social discrepancies between the rich and the poor scornfully and with distaste, he was barely skimming through the true meaning of his novel. It was not a coincidence that the first 3
settings of the novel mirrored the last 3 settings of the story, in which the past meets the present and affects the future of every main character. The mirror image of the beginning and end of the novel closes the dramas that had unfolded so successfully and so unexpectedly you have to give pause, and with awe come to appreciate the genius of the writing