Quetext about widget FAQ contact It is frequently agreed that at the core of F. Scott Fitzgerald novels runs poetry of desire, an entrenched course of pursuit set on motion by attractiveness. Gatsby youthful dreams, for illustration, effect possibly what Greek idea called a metanoia or adaptation of revelation to a further length of truth or fate: "a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy 's wing" (100). Unpreventable compelled by visitations of a reforming glamour, concerned with the field of divine existence, the author who in the 1920s fashioned himself the trumpeter of the Jazz Era would in an earlier age have voiced his stunning troubles in the dissertation