Examples Of Modernism In The Great Gatsby
“The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” F. Scott Fitzgerald was a defining author of Modernism. From 1914-1946 Modernism was a big part of the times cultural trends and experimenting with everything from styles to writings to science. Flappers, parties, gangsters, love, and tragedy all influenced Fitzgerald greatly because he lived it. Most of Fitzgerald's books and stories are about love and tragedy. This shows his view on the feelings and how he felt towards his own wife, Zelda, and the people he has encountered. Although he had a passion for storytelling, he struggled in writing and spelling. His dyslexia did not help either, and he nearly failed out of Princeton University, if it wasn't for him
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Donaldson states that Fitzgerald was known as “the chronicler of the jazz age, or the artist in spite of himself, or the most prevalent stereotype of all- the writer as a burnt-out case.” He was a very popular person. His wife was very well-known as well. She was always at parties, in dance clubs, and in the public's eye. In the story The Great Gatsby, NIck Carraway’s characteristics match Fitzgerald's in the sense that they couldn't make it as a writer, (Fitzgerald 10). Fitzgerald spent time he could have been writing books and novels, in clubs and at parties with women. “There is an arresting poignancy in the way the two of them- Scott more than Zelda perhaps- considered the alternatives and chose the sweet poison.” Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were very much alike- they loved attention. That became a never ending problem for the both of them that resulted in Fitzgerald becoming a raging alcoholic and as for Zelda, she was in and out of psychiatric hospitals. Even though they had their own problems, they still were infatuated with each other and Fitzgerald moved near every hospital Zelda was issued in.
Donaldson states that Fitzgerald was known as “the chronicler of the jazz age, or the artist in spite of himself, or the most prevalent stereotype of all- the writer as a burnt-out case.” He was a very popular person. His wife was very well-known as well. She was always at parties, in dance clubs, and in the public's eye. In the story The Great Gatsby, NIck Carraway’s characteristics match Fitzgerald's in the sense that they couldn't make it as a writer, (Fitzgerald 10). Fitzgerald spent time he could have been writing books and novels, in clubs and at parties with women. “There is an arresting poignancy in the way the two of them- Scott more than Zelda perhaps- considered the alternatives and chose the sweet poison.” Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were very much alike- they loved attention. That became a never ending problem for the both of them that resulted in Fitzgerald becoming a raging alcoholic and as for Zelda, she was in and out of psychiatric hospitals. Even though they had their own problems, they still were infatuated with each other and Fitzgerald moved near every hospital Zelda was issued in.