Scott Fitzgerald, also follows the theme of breaking the social norm, except this time showing the counterculture in society. The book itself focuses on the story of Jay Gatsby through the events experienced by the main character and narrator, Nick Carraway. Nick is Gatsby's neighbor and friend during the last year of his life. During this period, Nick experiences a reality completely separate from his own. He discovers the world of someone who was not born into money, but who earned everything illegitimately. The book shows the darker side of some businesses, with secret crime syndicates operating without the knowledge of the masses. Gatsby participates in some of these seedy enterprises and is undoubtedly a crook; however this book uses his rise to power to show a little considered point of view, that of the gangster/conman. This person who got to where she was by stepping on everyone and becoming someone completely without morals. Nick even undergoes a person change at the end of the book, although he initially makes Gatsby seem like a lower class person, throughout the book he gains great respect for him, the last time Nick sees Gatsby alive , he tells him: “They’re a rotten bunch… You’re worth this whole damn gang put together” (164 Fitzgerald). This total change in character occurs because Nick realizes that what society has taught him is not 100% true. He realizes that the standards set by his culture and society are all wrong and only operate from black and white thinking. He realizes that class is not relevant as he had originally believed. The book expresses the counterculture of this period, the promiscuity of women, gangsters and corruption. It approaches the underworld through the eyes of a wealthy narrator who has never come into contact with such things, allowing him to explain to us his understanding of other walks of life. Because the characters all represent adversaries