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| ÏèñàòåëèÏèñàòåëèFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, one of the most outstanding Fitzgerald left Princeton without a degree because of illness
and poor grades. However, his literary career started at the University. In 1917, he joined the army as a second lieutenant. All his
life he regretted the fact that he spent his time in service in His major novels appeared from 1920 to 1934: “This side of The main theme of almost all Fitzgerald’s fiction is the
attraction and the corrupting force of money. Once he said to Fitzgerald is the first American author to portray the lost generation, a generation, for whom “all the battles have been fought“ and “all the gods were dead”. The young generation has no ideals to uphold against the corruption of the rich. They are empty people afraid of poverty and idolizing richness, trying to fill their spiritual void with all kinds of wild entertainments. ”The Great Gatsby” Fitzgerald’s best work “The Great Gatsby” tells the life story of Jay Gatsby, the son of poor farmer, who falls in love with a rich and beautiful girl Daisy Fay who answers his love while his uniform conceals for a time his poverty. When the war is over, she marries the rich and elegant Tom Buchanan. Gatsby devotes his whole life to obtaining money and social position to make himself worthy of Daisy, though the only road open to him is bootlegging and dealing in dubious stocks. When later he meets Daisy again, she is impressed by rumours of his incredibly large fortune, his mysterious origin, his rich
mansion and his gorgeous and fashionable parties and makes him
believe she would leave Tom. Yet once , driving Jay back from New Gatsby’s fanatic attempt to reach his dreams is contrasted
to the disillusioned drifting life of the cynical members of
upper society who do not know what to do “this afternoon, the
day after that and the next thirty years ” , and whose existence
with wild parties and vulgar merriment is compared to the terrible
grey “ valley of ashes ” with the sordid eyes of an oculist’s
advertising sign watching the gaudy show. Fitzgerald stresses that The device of the intelligent and sympathetic observer at
the center of the novel allowed the author gradually to expose
the moral corruption behind the false structure of upper of Gatsby class respectability and splendour, at the same time the stature
of Gatsby gradually growing and achieving almost poetic elevation. Thus, if Dreiser was the scientist dissecting vast cross-
sections of American society with his social observations, Francis Scott Key (1896-1940) Lebedev Slava 11 form
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