The Great Gatsby

Characters engage in extramarital affairs and sensual descriptions of physical attraction are present.

The story includes a graphic hit-and-run accident and a murder-suicide.

Mild period-appropriate swearing and some derogatory social epithets are used throughout.

Characters occasionally use God's name in vain or as a casual exclamation.

Heavy social drinking and public drunkenness are central to the Jazz Age setting.

Characters experience deep despair, and the story concludes with a fatal act of violence.

The description of the 'valley of ashes' and the aftermath of the accident are unsettling.

There are no occult or supernatural elements in this realistic novel.

The book focuses on heterosexual relationships and traditional gender roles of the 1920s.

The narrative explores the hollow pursuit of the American Dream and moral relativism.

Characters are largely secular, viewing God only as a distant observer like a billboard's eyes.

Gatsby shows a misguided form of bravery in taking the blame for a loved one.

Biblical faith is absent, replaced by a secular focus on wealth and social status.

The book portrays obsessive, idolizing romantic desire rather than selfless, biblical love.

The characters generally lack repentance, leading to a cycle of carelessness and destruction.