The Great Gatsby Research Paper

Style of the 1900’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote many books and stories throughout his life. His style of writing was like no other. One of his most famous was "The Great Gatsby" which was about two people representing the two sides of Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. He also wrote another book “Tender is the Night” which is about his experiences with his wife while she suffered chronic mental breakdowns, most happening out of the blue. Most of his stories and books were biographies of himself and his life and in other term allegories. Also there are huge changes in his writing throughout history. His stories and books go from happy times filled with dancing, drinking, and riches, to sober themes exploring maturity,

He wrote about happy times of riches, partying, and drinking. At the point when the market crashed and the great circumstances went to a dramatic stop, the individuals who survived were left to contemplate their decisions, lament the waste and grieve the death of their childhood. Fitzgerald's fiction caught these circumstances with sharp understanding, with an unmistakably American voice. His work and life bloomed in the large abundances of the 1920s, affected by a culture of free women, Freudian therapy and social mores as liquid as bottled gin. At the point when the Great Crash of 1929 moved around, Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, crumbled too into their own money related and mental issues. In his fiction and in his life, Fitzgerald spent the following decade investigating topics of maturity, regret, and wisdom. “One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.” (Tender is the Night) This indicates the recalling and learning from past errors and maturity which Fitzgerald put in many of his books

In “Tender is the Night”, Dick Driver loves two women but is trying not to hurt both of them. In “The Great Gatsby”, Jay Gatsby is in love with Daisy a former girlfriend of his, but Gatsby doesn’t realize it’s too late and that Daisy has changed. “I decided to call to him. Miss Baker had mentioned him at dinner, and that would do for an introduction. But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.” (1.152) This represents the love Gatsby has for Daisy but as Gatsby reaches forward, but he's really reaching back into the past to a Daisy who doesn't exist anymore. It represents the endless love that Fitzgerald so skillfully