The Changing of the America Through Literature The authors of these two novels, Mark Twain with The Adventures or Huckleberry Finn and F. Scott Fitzgerald with The Great Gatsby, both used their stories to try and get the reader to reflect upon themselves and the time period they were discussing. They were both trying to deal with the problems occurring in their own society and help make the reader aware of the actual destruction that they were causing. Even though these two novels were written 74 years apart they were basically dealing with many of the same issues and social standards. The authors show numerous similarities going on in both era’s, the antebellum