The novel The Great Gatsby was written in the 1920s, this era was called the Roaring Twenties. These decades were characterized by an enormous economic boom which led to the evolution of American Society. Money became the center of many people’s lives and desires. An ambition among young Americans grew, and their only desire was to obtain money and to escalate in the American society. One of the main recurring themes which is evident throughout the novel is that it is centered upon superficiality. Our characters love for each other turned out to be none other than shallowness. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby, Daisy and their relationship as ultimate failures for no other reason than superficiality. Superficiality is widely shown in the novel by one of the main characters of the book, a young, wealthy man from West Egg characterized as Jay Gatsby. Gatsby was born into a low class poor German American family in North Dakota in the 1980s. Since Gatsby’s early years he had truly high ambitions for what he wished to conquer. Gatsby sought money, fame and everything that came along with it. Being really poor, this is what Gatsby sought, but not for his family or friends but for himself. Nick depicts his attained description from Gatsby, “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people-his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all” (105 Fitzgerald). Gatsby never accepted the fact that his parents never got further than being poor, Gatsby was ambitious, and he wanted to become famous and wealthy. Jay Gatsby, as he is depicted throughout most of the novel, is in fact not his real name. Gatsby was not satisfied of being born from that family. Gatsby, such an aspiring and sought-after person, did not look to remain with the name he was born with. His real name was James Gatz. Gatsby eventually described himself as being the quintessential example of a man. Nick describes that “The t