Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. ... However, what makes Fitzgerald great is by no means the "author's voice" in the work, but his marvelous wit to symbolically fuse the individual with the outer-world and the personal emotions with social environment. ... House is the symbol of material wealth and individual status, however, Gatsby's house which was "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville" suggests that Gatsby, the man who had achieved instant richnes...

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