Literary Analysis Essay On The Great Gatsby
Literary Criticism
Critics throughout the years agree that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of his most renowned accomplishments in his entire career. Although there are a few who believe this novel was like one of his previous ones. It portrays not only his understanding of the Jazz Age of being happy and having money but also the loss of traditional. Some critics found his novel entertaining, “a real attention grabber”, while others found it a bit negligible.
In 1942 Alfred Kazin a highly respected American Literary critic wrote that it was Fitzgerald's understanding of the character Gatsby that enabled him to depict so skillfully his tragedy and, even more consequently, the illusory nature of the American dream(Twentieth Century …show more content…
Earlier critics of Gatsby emphasized biographical and cultural influences on the novel, and formalist approaches dealt with the novel's structure, point of view, symbols, use of language, and the like(TCLC 157). Earlier critics saw that in his novels Fitzgerald put a lot of effort. If so many critics think that this was his greatest accomplishment its obviously a great book. The Great Gatsby relates to multiple aspects of Fitzgerald's life. Fitzgerald writes his novel with such precision no one can ignore. Gilbert Seldes wrote, “ The plot works out like a puzzle with every odd bits falling into place, but like a tragedy with every part functioning in the completed organism. I cannot find in the earlier Fitzgerald the artistic integrity and the passionate feeling which this book possesses”(Book Review Digest 225). That same year Edwin Clark said about The Great Gatsby, “ A curious book, a mystical, glamorous story of today. It takes a deeper cut at life than hitherto has been essayed by Mr. Fitzgerald. For he writes well-he always has- for he writes naturally and his sense of form is becoming perfected” ( Book Review Digest 225). Fitzgerald is a natural writer everything he writes seems to flow exactly into space. He was born to
Critics throughout the years agree that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of his most renowned accomplishments in his entire career. Although there are a few who believe this novel was like one of his previous ones. It portrays not only his understanding of the Jazz Age of being happy and having money but also the loss of traditional. Some critics found his novel entertaining, “a real attention grabber”, while others found it a bit negligible.
In 1942 Alfred Kazin a highly respected American Literary critic wrote that it was Fitzgerald's understanding of the character Gatsby that enabled him to depict so skillfully his tragedy and, even more consequently, the illusory nature of the American dream(Twentieth Century …show more content…
Earlier critics of Gatsby emphasized biographical and cultural influences on the novel, and formalist approaches dealt with the novel's structure, point of view, symbols, use of language, and the like(TCLC 157). Earlier critics saw that in his novels Fitzgerald put a lot of effort. If so many critics think that this was his greatest accomplishment its obviously a great book. The Great Gatsby relates to multiple aspects of Fitzgerald's life. Fitzgerald writes his novel with such precision no one can ignore. Gilbert Seldes wrote, “ The plot works out like a puzzle with every odd bits falling into place, but like a tragedy with every part functioning in the completed organism. I cannot find in the earlier Fitzgerald the artistic integrity and the passionate feeling which this book possesses”(Book Review Digest 225). That same year Edwin Clark said about The Great Gatsby, “ A curious book, a mystical, glamorous story of today. It takes a deeper cut at life than hitherto has been essayed by Mr. Fitzgerald. For he writes well-he always has- for he writes naturally and his sense of form is becoming perfected” ( Book Review Digest 225). Fitzgerald is a natural writer everything he writes seems to flow exactly into space. He was born to