▼△ The Brilliant Minutiae of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Rich-Romance-Trajedy... F Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896, went to Princeton and married a wild socialite Zelda Sayre, with whom he embarked on a life of crazy extravagance.. He was one of a group of writers (others being Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson and John Cheever) who were trying to forge a new style of writing; clean, informal, colloquial and American, that was quite distinct from the late 19th century English writers like Hardy and Dickens.. Fitzgerald was probably the most successful of this 1920's group - I certainly think he is much more readable than Hemingway..... Fitzgerald your place in literature is secure..Fitzgerald fixed the time and place so obviously in the 1920's by his use of specific historical names and situations of the time. At Gatsby's parties, the epitome of 1920's extravagance, Gatsby is rumored to be "a nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's ." Or perhaps he was a "German spy during the war ." Later, as Nick, Tom, and Myrtle go to New York, they see a "gray old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D. Rockefeller ." Meyer Wolfsheim, a fictitious character, is the man responsible for the 1919 World Series scandal, an event which truly occurred. Other details set the period, some quaint, such as the grass roller in Nick's yard.Nick refers to Jordan and Jay as "Miss" Baker and "Mr." Gatsby, a formality which no longer exists. Even with names Fitzgerald places the time--Violet, Gilda, Daisy--names of a certain period, but not our time.Music is also used specifically. Not just the names of the songs, but lyrics are provided for us: "The Sheik of Araby ," "Ain't We Got Fun ," and "It's Three O'Clock In the Morning ." For the current generation used to anything from disco to hip hop, these songs provide a portal into another world. Fitzgerald's way with beautiful language provides a haunting, nostalgic mood. One of the first often-quoted passages occurs in the description of Gatsby's party: "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars ." We get a sense of something intangible, almost grasped, but lost. The ghostliness of people and feelings almost present and then gone is presented throughout the book. "At the enchanted metropolitan twilight ," Nick says, "I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others...young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life ." It is difficult to emerge from this book without feeling a bittersweet loss for a time and place one never knew. One can "repeat the past" by reading The_Great_Gatsby. 【F. Scott Fitzgerald】The Great Gatsby A Glittering Take on the American Dream If there is any such thing as a perfect work of fiction (and there probably is not ) The Great Gatsby is it. The writing is like a crystal gem, sparkling and transluecent.It was interesting for me to read it in the context of Fitzgerald's rivarly with Hemingway. Fitzgerald drunk himself to death because he saw himself as a failed artist while Hemingway rose to fame. Hemingway shot himself, so I guess neither won. A couple of chapters following the aforementioned, one of the hottest days of the year is occurring. Inside a suite at the Plaza hotel in New York, the temperaments of Gatsby and Tom have risen just as high as the temperature, to a boiling point. Once the enigma of Gatsby is finally unraveled and revealed, Daisy is no longer in with Gatsby a.k.a. Mr. Cool. Daisy no longer radiates. Apparent by the sound of her voice, Daisy becomes as cold as the autumn night that succeeds the end of the affair between herself and Gatsby. Finally, we have Fitzgerald's, dare we say, blasphemous religious commentary implicated in the conflict between the Wilsons, Buchanans, and Gatsby. When Wilson suspects his wife of being unfaithful, he takes Myrtle to the window of their home, and tells her, "God sees everything ." Later on, this adulteress is killed after being hit by a car driven by Daisy. Myrtle's husband then swears revenge on the man who executed this craven act, but ends up killing the wrong man, the tragic hero of our novel, before killing himself. What this all means is that not only is God blind, but so are all his agents. There is only one minor turn off of the book.The way the plot flows is not exactly the best, since the story is told more through setting, mood, and characterization. The plot kind of just introduces everyone in the first several chapters and no real "action " takes place until the seventh chapter, whereas some people might already have lost interest. However, if the book is read all the way through then the plot does not skimp, since it is elongated through other elements as well, and as a whole the plot is gr8. However plot may be lacking in certain chapters if you just go out and look for it's initiation, because it only begins to pick up, if you will, around chapter 7. This book is thought to be one of Americas gr8est novels, and I do not disagree, and think it would be a wonderful addition to anyones library.All the little niceties Fitzgerald injects into The Great Gatsby subtly amount to the complete achievement of brilliance in the novel.
出産・子育て
ファッション
美容・コスメ
健康・ダイエット
生活・インテリア
料理・食べ物
ドリンク・お酒
ペット
趣味・ゲーム
映画・ＴＶ
音楽
読書・コミック
旅行・海外情報
園芸
スポーツ
アウトドア・釣り
車・バイク
パソコン・家電
そのほか
すべてのジャンル
