Answer: A. happiness comes from financial success.
The Great Gatsby is a novel that is better understood in its own historical context. The novel takes place during the 1920s, a period of economic success and prosperity in the history of the United States. The characters, moreover, are particularly wealthy. The novel intends to offer a critique of the consumerism and materialism that dominated the time period by presenting characters that, despite their financial success, cannot achieve happiness, and in fact, have very tragic lives.
