John T. Unger begins the story as guilty of wealth-worshipping as anyone else. "I like very rich people," he tells Percy. "The richer a fella is, the better I like him" (1.22). John comes from a to...

Braddock Washington is the embodiment of the values critiqued in Fitzgerald's satire: an insatiable desire for wealth, the absence of religion, and the will to destroy others for personal gain. Bec...

Kismine Washington is Percy's youngest sister and the love interest for our hero. She is, like her father's diamond, flawless. Let's take a look at the blossoming of first love:[John] was critical...

Percy is John's in to a world of luxury, ease, and garish wealth. Though we don't know it at the start, we find out later that Percy willfully brought John to his home to die; he knows full well th...