Examples Of Modernism In The Great Gatsby

Born in New Albany, Mississippi on Sept. 25th, 1897, Faulkner is one of America’s most celebrated novelist, poet, and short story writer. In contrast to the minimalistic style of his contemporaries, Faulkner often employed “stream of consciousness” into his work and wrote highly emotional, complex, and almost grotesque stories. As I Lay Dying, however, was one of Faulkner’s extreme pieces of literature. Through presenting the stories in the voices of fifteen unique characters, Faulkner was able to offer readers each character’s inner thoughts and emotions. While Darl, for instance, narrates in a storytelling fashion using reminiscences of his past and internal monologues. Dewey Dell, on the other hand, narrates with frantic energy and random thoughts. As we are not simply passive readers of each narrator, he brings up an interesting question: Whose narrative should we trust and whose should we not? Each individual character constitutes only a single part of the big picture, so it is up to readers to decide the credibility of each accounts. However, Faulkner does turn the reader's attention to one character in particular: Darl Bunsen. By contrasting Darl’s omniscience to his supposed insanity,

William Faulkner and Ernst Hemingway hold an eternal position as being two of the greatest writers in literature history. The writers wrote with very identifiable styles that only hold true to themselves; Hemingway described things in his stories down to its simplest form. Faulkner, on the other hand, compelled complex sentences and described all structures in his writings in magnificent detail. While the authors were fecund in their own writings the two are bonded together forever for being known as the two most vivid and descriptive writers of their time. Hemingway and Faulkner have major impacts on modern literature, many writers of today’s times are granted with the ability to turn to the works of these authors in-order to take a similar style with works of their own.

Modernist literature began between 1915-1935, writers mainly wrote fiction this is because they started to question what the future was going to bring since they were living through both World War. Modernists wrote their stories in first person which made their stories seem like a stream of consciousness, irony and satires. This type of literature was mainly written in English and became well known due to the increase of globalization, which was more about how the people felt about the events going on and how the people were affected in other words it spoke from the inner self of the writer. Many famous writers including Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald believed that the increase in new technology was leading to the decrease in civilization which was making individuals lonely.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is the story of the idiosyncratic millionaire Jay Gatsby. It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner from Long Island who later moves to Manhattan. Gatsby’s life is organized around one desire, Daisy, the woman he loved. This desire leads him on an expedition from poverty to wealth, reuniting with his old love, and his eventual death. In his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald is able to portray the American Dream where people seek out self-gratification and pleasure. He captures the romance of the roaring twenties with the cars, money, illegal alcohol and the wildest parties one could imagine. Much like the character, Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), wasn’t born into the upper class. While Gatsby is from the lower class, Fitzgerald from the middle class, both end up becoming exceptionally rich, fall into the wildest and reckless life, and use their fortunes to win the love and approval of the women they once loved.

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.” (FCF 4).

As we know words have power ro move readers, make them sad, angry, ashamed, and disgusted. Writers write with the craving to stimulate readers’ emotions, and readers read to experience an affective charge. Yet, it seems emotion remains a subject that may often receive little attention within literature. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romantically charged novel The great Gatsby is a good example of romantic literature. Fitzgerald novel linked America’s literary past and the romance of a nation struggling to re define itself in one character, Jay Gatsby. In an era of post-war disillusionment, severe gap in social classes and visionary idealism warped into materialism. Jay Gatsby as a romantic protagonist is a bold testimony to the Romanticism in American

The 1920s was an age of rebellion and freedom. No one could deny the energy of the young generation and their youthful decisions. Some of the social activities that rose up in the 1920s are still very popular in the world we know today. There was a certain pressure in the air that people had to do these new things to fit in with the world. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the characters have a great weight on their shoulders because society was telling them to live a certain way.

Fitzgerald presents the 1920s as a period of decadence and decay as a quest for the American Dream and the inherent belief in the Protestant Work Ethic were abraded by a new set of values. He suggests that the search for the American Dream can lead to emptiness, materialism, and loss of oneself. Fitzgerald illuminates Gatsby’s emptiness quite literally by using a green light across the “Egg” where Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby’s long-lost lover lives. Fitzgerald clearly highlights Gatsby’s emptiness when Fitzgerald states, “[Gatsby] stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way… I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away that might

The American Modernism period progressed in the 1900s and ended sometime in the late 1965. It was the time after the Industrial Revolution, where people swarmed to the cities to get riches and success. During the Roaring 20s and the American Modernism period, many people believed that money and material things made up success and determined how successful someone was. In the movie, The Great Gatsby, many of the people let materials determine where they go and who they went with. The money, houses, and cars are allusion appearances, the people seem happy to society, but in reality they are dissatisfied, in despair, and are having affairs.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author presents us with the story of a young man, Nick Carraway, who moves to Long Island in order to work as a salesman in New York City in the summer of 1922. During this novel, the sense of place is carefully portrayed through the modernist approach described by the narrator, Nick. The novel addresses issues of modernist concern like feminism, the effect of World War I in society, a man’s place in a possibly godless universe, and the development of technology. Throughout Nick’s accounts, the reader is immersed into his world where he can clearly see how his sense of place develops and his modernist sensibility is explored. Modernism, a literary movement of the 19th century, challenged the conventional way of presenting art and all other aspects of social life.

Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner are two very well-known and respected writers. Their rhetoric and overall writing styles have many similarities and differences. In the ways that their writings are similar are ways that most authors use and are successful with, but in the ways they are not similar is where different writers differentiate from other authors. Throughout their writings, such as Hemingway’s work “Hills Like White Elephants” and “Farewell to Arms,” and Faulkner’s writings “A Rose for Emily” and “Barn Burning,” they show characteristics that outdo the others work. Their separate styles appeal to writers and readers that can think similarly to them. Ever since that time period, both of their writings have influenced a lot of

The development of American Literature, much like the development of the nation, began in earnest, springing from a Romantic ideology that honored individualism and visionary idealism. As the nation broke away from the traditions of European Romanticism, America forged its own unique romantic style that would resonate through future generations of literary works. Through periods of momentous change, the fundamentally Romantic nature of American literature held fast, a fact clearly demonstrated in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In an era of post-war disillusionment, when idealism succumbed to hedonistic materialism, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romantically charged novel,

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During the early 20th century, modernism played a significant role in literature and themes. The Great Gatsby also revolved around the elements of modernism. The modernistic symbols in the novel managed to have deep relationships with society's noted issues. F.Scott Fitzgerald depicts modernism in The Great Gatsby through his portrayal of Gatsby's ambition, characters' desire for material gain, and the portrayal of marriage as an outdated social institution.

Hemingway and Faulkner have always been two of the greatest writers in lititures history. The two writers had such distinctive styles that only hold true to themselves, Hemingway stripped things down to its simplest elements while Faulkner compels complex structures in his writings. While these two authors are prolific in their own styles of writing the two are brought together as being known as two of the most vivid, descriptive writers of their era. These two writers have had major impacts on modern literature, many writers of today’s era can turn to works by these Authors to take a similar style in their works of writing. Hemingway and Faulkner were and still continue to be two very important authors in American literature, in which both have their own distinctive styles of writing but are brought together by their abilities to be descriptive within their own writing styles.