Religious iconography in 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald

<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/>Student #107 Quit Lookin' at Me "There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He." - Nietzsche <Tab/>This is the state …

…to all the of events in the novel, in the fact that religion is totally absent in the characters. In a time of prosperity and reform, there is no place for the cement shoe of tradition. Their lives are concerned with money, parties and falling in love, not with such trivial issues as eternal damnation. God's place is one of quiet disdain as His control is disappears into the black hole of marketing and economics.