The Great Gatsby reflected the culture of the 1920s, including its obsession with wealth and materialism, as well as its disillusionment with the American Dream.
Nick describes himself as someone who is "inclined to reserve all judgments" and who "wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever."
The frame narrative of "The Canterbury Tales" is a group of pilgrims telling stories to one another as they journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury.