F. Scott Fitzgerald has written numerous short-stories and five amazing novels: The Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and the unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon (now called The Last Tycoon). All of his novels were, in the end, incredibly popular. But what made it so interesting to read? Throughout his career, in nearly all his writings he used autobiographical elements. An example of autobiographical techniques being used, would be: The Side of Paradise, where he used information from his undergraduate years at Princeton University. This made him very popular among critics as he was given some very powerful criticism from his readers. However, most of the other autobiographical elements …show more content…
Also, the responses from magazines and newspapers ranged from dislodgment to encouraging compliments. Fundamentally, it was considered as a terrible novel. The New York World headed The Great Gatsby, ‘F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Latest Dud’. Ruth Synder in the New York Evening World delineated: ‘We are quite convinced after reading The Great Gatsby that Mr. Fitzgerald is not one of the great American writers of today.’ Also, Ruth Hale countered the Scribner’s blurb: ‘a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance and mysticism’ with: ‘Find me one chemical trace of magic, life, irony, romance or mysticism in all of Great Gatsby and I will bind myself to read on Scott Fitzgerald book a week for the rest of my life’. Per contra, the Dallas Morning News did acknowledge that The Great Gatsby was Fitzgerald’s attempt to move into a different fictional field and soon many other critics. It was a completely new and absurd experience for everyone at that time. Soon he received many positive compliments from his readers and critics. The Chicago Tribune headed the review, ‘New Fitzgerald Book Proves He’s Really a Writer’. This caused a huge critical debate, which has carried on to today’s society and by generation to generation this novel will carry the heavy burden of different