The great literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald has become part of American history. His work captured the era of the 1920’s seamlessly. The novels he wrote immersed his readers into a different world and entertained them. Fitzgerald was a talented writer and although he worked very hard for his fame, his work was not really commended until after his death. His unique technique of elaborate descriptions and allusions gave him that individual writing style that no one could imitate. It was the gift of writing that started at an early age for F. Scott Fitzgerald. When he was just thirteen years old, his first story was published in the school newspaper. He used his writing skills to gain acceptance among his peers and it worked. Once accepted into Princeton, he started writing musicals but unfortunately he ended up leaving because his focus was solely on becoming a famous writer. It wasn’t until before his marriage that he started to gain fame for his novels. The Last Paradise was the first well known novel that launched Fitzgerald …show more content…
The coming out of his novel, The Great Gatsby, had perfect timing. Fitzgerald was able to portray how greed and ambition can destroy happiness. Even though the book did not gain fame until after his death, The Great Gatsby would then become one of the must reads of American culture. The success of the novel depends on Fitzgerald’s ability to transfer to the reader the same kind of vision that he himself had: the ability to believe in the possibilities of several opposite ideas at various levels of abstraction (Mangum 1-11). It was in this book that Fitzgerald was able to achieve that “double vision” that he worked so hard to portray. This “double vision” allowed readers to see two oppositions and experience both points of view. It was this technique that made The Great Gatsby the big success it came to be. His style of writing was intelligent and distinct; he had achieved the American