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... The literary modernism of the Twenties was also the beginning of a new age.
During this time, among many, there are two enormous achievements of the American novel: Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. ...
Hemingway and Fitzgerald implied their strong social observation in writing The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby, respectively, widely considered the two masterpieces of Lost Generation fiction. ... The major difference is that in The Sun Also Rises, it is the narrator whose desire is unrequited, and because of a physical injury, whereas in Fitzgeralds work, Gatsby (not the narrator) cannot have his love interest for other reasons. ... They are the narrators’ story, which “is filtered through the consciousness of an alert and sensitive first-person narrator who stands as a witness to the main thrust of the central action even as he works out a knotty story, with its particular and pressing problem, of his own. ... 108) Everything that the reader sees and knows is created by the narrators’ point of view. ... The tone of voice the narrator uses to reveal the characters and events in the story will show us what his/her attitude is to these characters or events. ... uk)
Fitzgerald’s narrator in The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway. ... Nick is well suited to narrating The Great Gatsby because of his temperament. ... Gatsby, in particular, comes to trust him and treat him as a very close friend. ...
Upon his arrival in West Egg he makes the distinction between Gatsby, whom he loves because of his dream, and the other characters, who represent the "foul dust" that "floated in the wake of his dreams. ... At first Nick is not so critical with the other characters, he gradually forms solid opinions about the others around him. ...
Nick’s unreliable narration can be seen in the reactions towards Gatsby. His attitudes toward Gatsby and Gatsby’s story are ambivalent and contradictory. At times he seems to disapprove of Gatsby’s strange behavior, breaches of manners and ethics, but he also admires Gatsby. It seems that Nick has passed a moral judgment on Gatsby. What makes Gatsby great? The title of the novel is ironic, because neither “The Great” nor “Gatsby” show the truth.
Approximate Word count = 1845
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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