The Roaring Twenties were all about the superficial pursuit of wealth and pleasure, all overlaid with greed and corruption resulting in the destruction of the "American Dream", creating the biggest divide of richness in history. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a love story between individuals set in the roaring 1920s in Long Island, New York; geographically the area is divided between 2 groups, West Egg and East Egg, the geographical division symbolizes the social division between 2 groups of old money and new money, Jay Gatsby is among the nouveau riche while his perfect love interest idealized throughout the life Daisy comes from old money, Jay Gatsby uses his new found wealth to obtain the item he truly desires, ultimately resulting in his underservice. Fitzgerald criticizes wealthy individuals saying that they lack morals and have no care or empathy for others justified by the actions of Tom and Daisy, Fitzgerald also criticizes that many Americans have destroyed the American dream due to their unstoppable lust for wealth and materialism . Aside from the social problems of moral decay and materialism, the idea of ​​identity, image and social status is very important in The Great Gatsby and in T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock both Gatsby and Prufrock struggle with their past or present image as illustrated in the following quotes, "It's time to go back and go down the stairs, With a bald patch in the middle of their hair (They'll say, "How thin his hair is getting!") My morning coat , the collar rising firmly to the chin, My tie rich and modest, but affirmed by a simple pin -(They will say: "But how thin are his arms and legs!") Do I Dare." (Prufrock). And the quote from The Great Gatsby, “James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that saw the beginning of his career – when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor on the most treacherous flat of Lake Superior” (Fitzgerald 94). Both characters are concerned with their identity with Gatsby going so far as to change his name and reinvent himself and Prufrock criticizing his appearance and telling himself that he is not worth the embarrassment the similar idea that links both of their problems is love and the quest to achieve the only thing that separates these two is how far you are willing to go to achieve