Chutes and Ladders The Movement Through Social classes In The Great Gatsby 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald acquaints the reader with a developing love story that occurred in the early to mid 1920s in the nations busiest city New York City at a time or industrial and social reform In Their Eyes Were watching God 1937 Zora Neale Hurston chronicles the life story of a poor African American girl in the late 30s throughout a variety of regions a small town where she and her Grandmother grew up and lived wit