Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald achieved celebrity status upon the publication of This Side of Paradise and reached new heights of celebrity after the release of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald reveals a lot about himself in The Great Gatsby by attributing aspects of himself to the different main characters in the novel. Fitzgerald uses these symbolic characters to aptly represent humans and social classes in the Jazz Age, defined by the OED as "the 1920s in the United States characterized as a period of carefree hedonism, wealth, freedom and youthful exuberance. The Great Gatsby depicts events in New York in 1922, the Jazz Age, from the perspective of Nick Carraway, in which Nick serves as a vehicle for the reader's eventual understanding of upper-class emptiness and the decline of the American dream , major themes of the novel. Fitzgerald uses symbolism to reveal veiled messages analyzing the real world, its great variety and contradictions, through the events and symbols of The Great Gatsby. Although many writers such as Lionel Trilling have suggested an allegorical nature to the characters in The Great Gatsby, these characters act as symbols for multiple aspects of the real world. F. Scott Fitzgerald immediately characterizes and foreshadows the events of each main character through symbolic nomenclature; each name can be analyzed to determine what location they live in, and each main character's first name symbolizes aspects of their personality. Characters such as SW Belcher, Miss Haag, and MP Jewett, all names representing lower status, live in West Egg, while comparative individuals Chester Becker and Doctor Webster Civet, all sophisticated names, reside in East Egg; Fitzgerald's symbolic nomenclature...... middle of paper ......40. Literary Resource Center. Internet. February 24, 2014. Belliner, Karen. “Name of JP Morgan and Gatsby.” Studies in American Fiction 21.1 (1993): 111+. Literary Resource Center. Internet. February 24, 2014. Dilworth, Thomas. “The Passion of Gatsby: evocation of Jesus in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. » Explainer 68.2 (2010): 119-121. Premier Academic Research. Internet. February 12, 2014.Elmore. AE “Color and cosmos in The Great Gatsby”. The Sewanee Review. 78.3(1970):427-443. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Print.Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. “Jazz Age” print. Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press, nd Web. March 3, 2014. Will, Barbara. “The Great Gatsby and the Obscene Word.” Collegiate Literature 32.4 (2005): 125+. Gale Literary Resources. Internet. February 17. 2014.