The Great Gatsby: America's Era of Disdain Characters in literature reflect thoughts conceived from personaters endeavoring the portrayal of an actual human existence. Though these have their individual assets they also depict the portrait of an era. Jay Gatz, the character in which The Great Gatsby is focused on, is used by Scott Fitzgerald to manifest his eras lost dream. The society he describes substitutes present existence for moral and any other vicinity of feelings. Fame and wealth is the climax according to the Great American Dream. Those who are there carelessly trample over anything in path of their vicious cycle of present glory. The on