Narrator's Role in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Kerouac's On The Road

Without Nick, Gatsby's true colors would not be shown and his behavior would be left not pondered.  His presence from the beginning to the

In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses social commentary to show what the people of the time period were like. It is set in an upper class area of old and newly made wealthy people. Although the book was set during the Jazz Age of the 1920s, it parallels the people of the 21st century and shows the peoples low morals, their individual pursuit of the American dream, and how they embrace noblesse oblige.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and his parents were both born in Maryland and Irish. You could say he grew up very lower middle class. Fitzgerald’s views of relationships began at an early age. It was interesting because many of his best books came from the idea that women & men relationships is just a game with one person ending up being a winner. He claimed to forever have a jazz-age attitude that would stick with him for life, and it worked. F. Scott Fitzgerald died December 21, 1940 at the young age of 44.

The Great Gatsby has been around for ages; it is a story of a young man in the 1920’s who is thrown into a new world made up of the new and the old rich. He is confused by the way these people act and in the end cannot stay another minute in this strange, insensitive, materialistic world. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many techniques to help the reader understand how Nick Carraway (the narrator) is feeling throughout the story. In the book The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses effective language to make his writing successful. He uses the techniques of imagery and irony to display this message.

Have you ever lit your pants on fire!?! Thankfully, neither have I, but I did make a fool of myself in front of my entire class. All of my teachers and classmates know that I am a slow reader, but I usually never do anything wrong. That is why it became such a shocking and hilarious experience when I finally did something wrong. I learned the hard way, through slight humiliation, that you should always follow an instructor’s exact directions no matter the circumstance.

Gatsby colossal mansion, is used a a centre point for the entire novel; it is the place most explored and best described by Fitzgerald, and an analysis of the architecture reveals multiple aspects of Jay Gatsby himself. Gatsby House is initially described as “ a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy,” (5). Fitzgerald, uses “factual imitation” to address how the house is an pastiche of the European/French palace-style, accurate in detail, but lacking in the whole impression, which is juxtaposed with Gatsby 's place in society. The house in its entirety is a fake, however, the abode, like it 's owner contains some authenticity - Gatsby did study at Oxford, but he was not an Oxford graduate, and had a medal at Montenegro; here, the details are genuine. On page 45, when a stout middle-aged man, with large spectacles is flabbergasted in Gatsby possession of real books in his library He exclaims “What thoroughness! What realism!”(46). This could directed at Gatsby 's whole facade which is extremely realistic, here, Fitzgerald draws attention to aspects of Gatsby authenticity.

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald proves that Nick Carraway is an honest and reliable narrator. The author uses writers effect to portray how Nick is within and without, how he reserves all judgments and how he is honest.

Any American is taught a dream that is purged of all truth. The American Dream is shown to the world as a belief that anyone can do anything; when in reality, life is filled with impossible boundaries. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the upper class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. It is through the narrator's dealings with the upper class that the reader is shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream's pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power, and how the world of the upper class lacks any sense of morals or consequence. In order to support Fitzgerald's message

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby demonstrates what Marie-Laure Ryan, H. Porter Abbott and David Herman state about what narratology should be. These theorists emphasize the importance of conflict, human experience, gaps and consciousness, among many other elements, in order for a story to be considered a narrative. The Great Gatsby shows these elements throughout the book in an essential way. This makes the reader become intrigued and desperate to know what will happen next. The Great Gatsby is unpredictable throughout the use of gaps, consciousness and conflict.

The ideological concept of social hegemony, based on the stratification of class, ensures that the ruling elite, the aristocracy, have absolute power over social institutions, with the ability to control and determine dominant social values. “The Great Gatsby” (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a contemporary realism novella, which explores the tragic adventures of the titular character, Jay Gatsby, as narrated by his neighbour and friend Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald’s scathing attack upon the selfish and frivolous values of the 1920s Jazz Age is effectively constructed through the author’s use of Carraway’s distinctive voice, to develop the ironic idea of Gatsby as “great” and the representation of the American Dream, the manipulative attitude of the aristocracy towards the bourgeoisie and proletariat classes, and the alternate reading of Nick Carraway as an unreliable narrator. Furthermore, “The Great Gatsby” is a Modernist text, rejecting traditional forms of literature in favour of Fitzgerald’s use of the distinct unreliability of narration within a nonlinear structure. Audiences are encouraged to respond to the ideas and attitudes constructed through Carraway’s distinctive voice, to question the hyperbolic excess of the Jazz Age, supporting the dominant reading of rejecting the extravagant and acquisitive corruption of the period, whilst also exploring the alternate reading of Carraway as an unreliable narrator.

In novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald exams the lifestyle and relationships of the main character Jay Gatsby, “The air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendos and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings of women who never know each other’s name...The party has started. (Fitzgerald, pg. 40-41). Gatsby's parties disguised the fraud that rest at the center of the “roaring twenties”. Fitzgerald exposes the inner turmoil that Gatsby wrestled with, living a life he’s not familiar with, the life of privileged, while remaining a lonesome outsider. Conversely, his mannerisms were “impeccable”. Gatsby managed to develop an unbelievable script of who he was and with such ease

Even though a novel is fictional, a relationship can still exist between the author and the main character. Authors connect their life experiences to their literary work even if it is not an autobiographical work. This circumstance occurs in the novel, The Great Gatsby. The author of this novel F. Scott Fitzgerald draws parallels with his life and the life of the main character, Jay Gatsby. The connections between Fitzgerald and Gatsby can be determined if the reader knows the life and background of Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby contains fictional characters but uses these characters to portray himself and the people in his life. This novel is different in the way that it is told in a point of view that observes the life of Gatsby and in a sense,

Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His most famous work, The Great Gatsby has seen many film adaptations and is widely considered to be a literary classic. Most reader are unaware that the beloved classic is not entirely fictional. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald drew much of his inspiration for events and characters in the book from his own life.

Many films are based on novels, but most films fall short of which the author has intended to intrigue a reader, trying to compensate for the non eventful parts in a novel that would disinterest the audience of the film. An example of butchering a novel to make it presentable to the film watchers is the 1974 film directed by Jack Clayton, “The Great Gatsby”. The director Jack Clayton changed the overall appearance that was visualized while reading the novel by making everything extraordinary and vibrant while also telling the same story as the novel had intended. Changes were as simple as hair color and glossiness of a vehicle or even a different figure on an advertisement, but they do

n the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a definitive line in the narrative structure of this work. While reading this novel, one can follow the events from start to finish without having to do much guess-work in between. Fitzgerald shows exposition in the beginning of the novel by explaining the key characters and the setting of the book as well as the point of view and narration; and very early on, we learn of his distaste of a fellow character. The rising action of the novel is quite clear when one of the main characters’ personality shows through. The high point, or climax, of the novel is by far the most memorable. The author builds the reader right where they expect to be and just what the reader is assured that