Briefly discuss the characteristics of Scott Fitzgerald's novels based on The Great Gatsby.
A. Fitzgerald's fictional world is the embodiment the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young man.
B. Young men and young women in the 1920s had a sense of reckless confidence about money and about life.
C. Beneath their masks of relaxation and joviality there was sterility, meaninglessness and futility and amid the grandeur and extravagance a spiritual wasteland and a hint of decadence and m oral decay. This juxtaposition of appearance with reality is easily recognizable in Fitzgerald's novels.
D. Fitzgerald deals with the bankruptcy of the American Dream, which is highlighted by the disillusionment of the protagonists' dreams due to the clashes between theirrom antic vision of life and the reality. The protagonist of The Great Gatsby had fallen in love with Daisy whose family is we when he was poor army lieutenant. At the end of the story Gatsby did not realize his dream. Gatsby is a mythical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself.
E. Gatsby's pursuit of his dream proves to be futile since what he seeks is an illusion, and a nightmare. His failure magnifies the end of the American Dream.
