THE FLAPPERS' MORAL VALUES IN POST WORLD WAR I AMERICAN SOCIETY SEEN THROUGH THE WOMEN CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL THE GREAT GATSBY BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

The Great Gatsby is one of the most popular novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is the way of F. Scott Fitzgerald conveys his ideas. The purpose of the novel is to criticize the flappers� moral values changes through presenting the young women characters. The novel is one of the fiction documentation as the reflection to American Dream as the formed of American Culture at the 1920s era. In the novel, the author gives the pictures of how young women characters try to reach and pursue their own happiness. They also create a freedom as the representation of the rebellion movement by showing, exploring, and expressing more from what they want to do it freely, in public. It becomes the way of running away against their worst experience in the past. Unfortunately, the moral changes are messed. They are really different from their elder generation in term of moral values. They cannot control their desires and madness. Finally, those give the worst impact to themselves and other people around them. For example, the murder and the victim are the lack cause of morality of the young women characters in the novel. It is called the madness. They cannot distinguish whether their attitude, behavior, and lifestyle are good or bad, advantages or disadvantages to themselves or other people around them, and appropriate or inappropriate with the social and religion rules. In the study, the current researcher focuses on the flappers� moral values. It is the lack of morality to get freedom and pursue the happiness. They cannot control their moral conduct anymore. Besides that, the way they try to reach their dream. They do not care in stirring up other people�s feelings. This is absolutely a wrong interpretation of freedom and way of pursuing their happiness. It is a wrong manifestation of American Dream. They become the egoist person, the lier, unrespectful to each other, irresponsibility person, the unfaithful person, hedenoism, vulgar and rebellious, high sexual attraction and aggressiveness, and murderer who cannot put theirselves in the right and certain shape as women