1. Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
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. ... The symbolism of the hero evidently plays a vital role throughout the story.From the legendary life of Gatsby, we can actually find a great deal of Fitzgerald himself in it. ... So to some degree, the relatio...
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