5 page English paper

5 page MLA format English paper. Be sure to have a clear original thesis, which you prove in your paper. Consider 3 library sources in your answer. Try to choose the smallest quotes possible! 

In modern society we hear the term "family values" bandied about a great deal, even to the point of its becoming a political weapon. How did the works of (The Great Gatsby, Quicksand, and The Lost Lady) address the question of "family values"? What do they suggest constitutes a family and how does that differ (or not) from earlier notions of the same unit? If family have values, according to these authors, in what do these values consist? What style of innovations give stronger impact to their notions of families and their values?