The Great Gatsby is a story set in the 1920s, also known as the Jazz Age. It was published in 1925. In the 1920s, new things were happening: women were becoming freer, there was a lot of partying, and dating was more casual. Author Fitzgerald was also familiar with homosexuality, although it was illegal at the time (Froehlich; Heying). In the novel, Nick tells the story of a man named Gatsby, who is in love with his neighbor, Daisy. One of the themes of The Great Gatsby is love. In The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald implies a deeper one-sided relationship between Nick and Gatsby. To begin with, Nick and Gatsby are opposites. This makes each character compatible with the other. This also shows that the two characters can come together to create a balanced character. Nick has a normal past life where he listened to what his father told him. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I have turned over in my mind ever since” (Fitzgerald 1). The advice was to live a moral life, which would prevent Nick from having an intimate relationship with Gatsby (Kerr 411). He obtained his education and “graduated from New Haven in 1915” (Fitzgerald 3). Nick lived the life of a conscientious person and was not involved in any criminal activity. Nick also joined the “Teutonic migration known as the Great War” (Fitzgerald 3). Basically, Nick leads a normal life for the time. His life is highlighted as normal when he states that “everyone was in the bond business, so I assumed it could support one more single man” (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsby, on the other hand, has a dark past due to pursuing his dream of getting Daisy money. In the diary, Ed's Nick and Gatsby's sexual drama......in the center of the paper......ritannica. January 2, 2014. Web. May 25, 2014Fitzgerald, Francis S. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 2004. Print.Froehlich, Maggie G. “Jordan Baker, Gender Dissent, and Homosexual Passage in the Great Gatsby.” Space Between: Literature and Culture 6.1 (2010): 81-103. EBSCOHOST. Web May 6, 2014. Hi, Monty. “Gay Implications in Nick Carraway of The Great Gatsby.” The Red Room. The Red Room, May 11, 2013. Web. May 8, 2014. Hochman, Barbara. “Disembodied voices and narrative bodies in the Great Gatsby”. Style 28.1 (1994): 95. EBSCO. Network. May 12, 2014.Kerr, Francesca. “Feeling “Half-Feminine”: Modernism and the Politics of Emotion in The Great Gatsby” American Literature 68.2 (1996): 405-431. JSTOR. Network. April 30, 2014. Wasiolek, Edward. “The Sexual Drama of Nick and Gatsby.” The International Fiction Review 19.1 (1992): 14-22. Google Scholar. Network. May 6 2014.