Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Structure Of The Great Gatsby

Monarch Notes, 20050229 by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fitzgerald, F. Scott Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Structure Of The Great Gatsby: In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald succeeded in achieving a certain "disassociation of sensibility" by structuring his book so that both the "Gatsby" part of himself and that other part-the firm part of his own moral and intellectual being-would complement rather than dilute each other.

Using the device of a "dual hero" - that is, a first-person narrator who himself represents one aspect of Fitzgerald's moral vision, he created a work which is both more and less "autobiographical" than his earlier books. If Jay Gatsby represents still another dramatization of the false dream of money which fascinated Fitzgerald throughout his career, it is Nick Carroway who represents an...

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