Gatsby essay for Rocco's fat ass
Gatsby essay for Rocco's fat ass.The Greatest Modernist Writer
After the death and destruction of World War One, people and the world had changed. People no longer conformed to the traditional ways but rebelled and sought out new idea and ways of doing things, this rebellion also flowed into literature. Authors stopped writing in the traditional fashions and because they were no longer restricted in their writings they began to write about new themes such as sex, inner city life, and real life problems. Also authors began to use uncertainty, disjointedness, and disillusionment in their stories as content in their stories to convey the feeling of the time. To break away from the typical way of writing, authors now omitted expositions, transitions, explanations, and resolutions, and thus the modernist era was born. Though out this era there were many great writers such as Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, and T.S. Elliot, but Fitzgerald was on of the best, (American Literature 6 ). In the novel The Great Gatsby he uses all of the techniques of modernist writing to make the reader go back in time to the 1920�s and experience what life and people were like.
In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses uncertainty, disjointedness, and disillusionment for the content of his story. The reason why he is a master of modernist writing is because he not only makes his characters uncertain, disjointed, and disillusioned, but he also makes the reader feel that was. He gives the reader a taste of what it was like back in the 1920�s and he does this through the content of his novel.
At the opening of the novel the reader is introduced to the narrator, although they will not find out who the narrator is until a later time. The narrator begins to talk about a character named Gatsby. � Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn�, (Gatsby 6). �No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive in sorrows and short-winded elation of men�, (Gatsby 6). After reading these excerpts about Gatsby the reader becomes confused and uncertain of who Gatsby is. The reader at this point has no idea of who Gatsby is, but they do know that something envelops and preys on him. The reader is further made uncertain about Gatsby when the narrator, who they now knows is Nick Carraway, is invited over Gatsby�s house for one of his huge house parties, (Gatsby 45). At this party he hears people speculate about Gatsby. He hears that Gatsby might have been a spy for the Germans in World War One and also hears that Gatsby might have killed a man, (Gatsby 48). Nick along with the reader is now even more uncertain about who Gatsby...
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