Essay Comparing Hemingway's A Very Short Story and Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

One stylistic choice that Fitzgerald makes it his use of Similes and metaphors to make the reader feel sympathetic. For example, during the part of when Nick goes

Fitzgerald’s writing enhances and becomes effective due to concrete diction. The author uses scenarios and physical traits to stagger and increase the comprehension of the audience. In chapter seven, while Nick is on a train towards East Egg, Nick observes closely at the conductor, stating “that anyone should care in this heat whose flushed lips,

The last few lines in Fitzgerald’s

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, though both evolved from the same literary time and place, created their works in two very dissimilar writing styles which are representative of their subject matter. The two writers were both products of the post-WWI lost generation and first gained notoriety as members of the American expatriate literary community living in Paris during the 1920's. Despite this underlying fact which influenced much of their material, the works examined in class dramatically differ in style as well as subject matter. As far as style, Fitzgerald definitely takes the award for eloquence with his flowery descriptive language whereas Hemingway's genius

Fitzgerald develops Daisy’s character through descriptions. In the novel, he describes Daisy as having an alluring voice (Fitzgerald

At the beginning, the readers are absorbed in a romantic and idealistic story between Daisy and Gatsby, and they become disappointed after they find out the truth about her. After the readers experience such an abrupt turn of the plot, they can reevaluate the American Dream and whether it has become too materialistic. Fitzgerald simply narrates the story and lets the reader have their own interpretation of the novel and the American

Lydia Rios Ms. Tobias English 3 GT-4th 1/7/16 THE FAULT WITH FITZGERALD This paper will highlight several comparisons and contrasts between the novel and movie, The Great Gatsby. There will be a brief description of how the text was portrayed in the novel, movie and how they are similar. Then the same, but with how they are different. In conclusion, there will be a summary of why the similarities and differences are important and how they made the novel or movie stronger or weaker.

Fitzgerald contrasts chapter three and chapter twelve using Imagery.In chapter three “men and girls came and went like moths.” There were people coming and going all the time at Gatsby’s house. In chapter twelve the “kitchen looked like a pigsty.” There was no one there to impress so Gatsby did not care what it looked like. When Gatsby's house was lively with people and fun,people “scampered like a yellow bug.” People were everywhere and in every place. “The whole caravansary had fallen like a card house.” People were not invited anymore so there was no activity. Fitzgerald uses very lively similes to help his readers

Fitzgerald utilized details to mirror the external and internal worlds to illustrate to the reader the changes that happen in Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship. This emphasis makes their tragic relationship more dramatic, it illustrates to the reader how their relationship progresses and how it’s doomed to fail. Examples of this are when Daisy and Gatsby meet once again, during lunch at Daisy’s house, and in the moment of Gatsby’s death.

Both novelists, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, were exemplary modernists. Reading their work is like looking through their eyes right into their lives, and understanding their past. Hemingway had more of a bleak outlook on life, and Fitzgerald hated the people he saw around

In This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes lengthy and complex sentences that mirror the complexity of the situation and prolong the intense emotions that the characters experience. His syntactical choices not only depict the narrator’s reflection on the characters, but also the character’s reflection on the situation. He creates the most pivotal moments through his use of multiple commas, dashes, and ellipses, that lengthen the sentence, consequently drawing out the characters’ conflicts and struggles. In both the aforementioned works, Fitzgerald employs this technique to portray central themes of disillusionment about wealth and society, vacillation of emotions, and uncertainty of life.

          Hemingway’s writings also had the modern characteristic of drawing heavily in the own experience for the plots, settings, and characters in his works. This made his writings more realistic than nineteenth

The literary styles of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrate the idea that although there are some similarities in their writing styles, there are also many differences. The main literary similarity between these two writes is a focus on symbolism. For Hemmingway, this could be seen in his short story “Big Two-Hearted River” which uses various innocuous-seeming things to represent larger themes. One example of this is the swamp. Hemingway describes it by saying, “In the swamp fishing was a tragic adventure. Nick did not want it” (Hemmingway 198). In this case, Hemingway used the swap to represent fear. In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald does something similar with the light at the end of Daisy's dock. He uses this image to show

A comparison of the ways in which Fitzgerald and Bronte present their heroes. (2742 words)

Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner were two of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. While they lived during the same period, their writing styles differed drastically. This can be seen in texts such as Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”. Hemingway’s style puts little focus on specific character details, which makes his stories seem like they could be about any person, including the reader, while Faulkner’s style puts a lot of focus on specific character details, which makes every detail and every character seem important to the reader. Both authors have styles indirect to their points, which forces the readers to figure out information on their own and leaves the purposes of texts more open to interpretation.