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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The life
Born in 1896 in Minnesota
In 1920 he published This Side of Paradise
In 1922 he published
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Beautiful and Damned
In 1925 he published The Great Gatsby the novel was not successful at first
In 1934 he published Tender Is the Night
In 1939 he started The Last Tycoon
He died in 1940 of a heart attack
The great Gatsby
Gatsby’s origins
Love story
Gatsby’s success
Nick Carraway
The accident
Gatsby’s death
Jay and Nick
Jay Gatsby
Nick Carraway
Fitzgerald’s message
Symbolic image
Fitzgerald’s style
Uses sensory details frequent and colours
Retrospective narration
Carraway
He is a retrospective narrator
Narrative style
Uses fragmented time and frequent flashbacks
Represents how knowledge is naturally acquired in real life
The america dream
Clash between romantic ideals (courage, honour, beauty) and greed and money
Shows car industry growth and Prohibition effects wealth and pleasure corrupt people
Nick represents Fitzgerald’s moral voice shows decay of the Jazz Age generation