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...... Thus, Fitzgerald implies that during the Jazz Age, money and economical power had become so important that they were used as a means for compensating other gaps in the lives of people. It is obvious thus that the authors commentary on the age includes some of the most important ways in which the American lifestyle was affected during that time. The first symbol in the text which implies the devastating effect of money and of the entire Jazz Age, is as critic Rose Adrienne Gallo suggests, the very title of the story. As it is well known, Babylon was the sinful biblical city, known for its excess and depravity: In Babylon Revisited Fitzgerald draws on a biblical source for his title. The inhabitants of the Old Testament city of Babylon were notorious for their licentiousness. Many of the Jewsheld captive in Babylon for seventy yearswere seduced by the sinful allure of Babylon, and turned from the observance of the Mosaic law to the worship of Babylonian idols.(Gallo, 76) Thus, Babylon becomes a symbol for the Roaring Twenties. Furthermore, Charles own psychology seems to be affected by money to the greatest extent. Although it can be said that he is

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