Evening gentleness (Selected Foreign Literature of the 20th Century)

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The Great Gatsby treats decay as its theme. Most of the material in the novel comes from the author's own experiences—alcoholism, a disreputable life, his wife's illness, and his fear of himself—and also expresses his disappointment in people from a larger world, his disappointment in the glittering world he lived in. In this world, there were endless banquets and balls, endless drinking and revelry. Fitzgerald spent most of his life in such an environment. The Great Gatsby is a reflection of his family and spiritual life. In This Side of Paradise, he desperately depicts the Jazz Age; in The Great Gatsby, he expresses his reluctance to part with this Jazz Age; and in The Great Gatsby, he sings a mournful dirge for the Jazz Age.