2. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? In the article, “The Great Gatsby” by Kenneth Eble, the analysis of the novel allows for a more in-depth reading and understanding of the novel The Great Gatsby as it portrays the overlap of Fitzgerald’s internal feelings and opinions of society in the characters of Gatsby and Nick, inserting his emotions into the novel. Specifically, Eble compared Fitzgerald’s goal for the novel to Gatsby’s unobtainable goal of the American Dream, equating their characters as similar. The author formulates the idea that “Fitzgerald must have been like Gatsby, obsessed all the while with unattainable dreams amidst a life even more ruled over by actualities than Gatsby’s” (Eble 43). The parallel between Fitzgerald’s and Gatsby’s personality provides insight into Fitzgerald’s driving ambition to create a successful novel of The Great …show more content…
The harsh reality that dictated his life left Fitzgerald disillusioned with society, leading this main idea of disillusionment to become a prevalent theme throughout the novel. In addition, Eble proclaims Nick, the first-person narrator, as the complex, moral center of the novel, elaborating on Fitzgerald’s use of Nick to create his own voice for his thoughts and opinions of the 1920s. The author reflects on what the critic Thomas Hanzo discovered that “.Nick Carraway in seeing that Fitzgerald’s exploration of American morality is amplified ‘through the personal history of a young American provincial whose moral intelligence is the proper source of our understanding and whose career, in the passage from innocence to revaluation, dramatizes the possibility and mode of a moral sanction in contemporary American’” (Eble 40). Through Nick’s first-person narration, the reader gains awareness and understanding of the moral landscape of the