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. ... Gatsby's mansion was "sparking new under a thin beard of raw ivy", while Tom's had the lawn "drifting up the side in bright vines", subtly suggesting their common money-pursuit psychology and as wel...

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