Holocaust Great Gatsby | UHD |

The world of The Great Gatsby dies not just with the shots in the pool, but with the rise of the 1930s. The carelessness of Tom and Daisy Buchanan, and the rigid class structures Gatsby tries to breach, represent the decadence and moral vacuum of the West. When the Holocaust arrived, it revealed that the "civilization" Gatsby so desperately wanted to join was fragile enough to commit unspeakable atrocities. Gatsby’s death is the death of the American illusion; the Holocaust was the death of the European illusion.