) Agree or disagree with the following statement, then explain your answer, providing specific examples of events and behavior in the story that speak to the issue of an empty moral wasteland. "Fitzgerald's characters live in a world of social and personal insecurity, undefined goals, and preoccupation with status. It is a world where appearance is the only reality, where people have no deep or meaningful thoughts, emotions, or beliefs. The act is replaced by the gesture, and genuine emotion gives way to whatever "appearance" of emotion is most convenient at the time."