Scrimgeour states, "It may serve to teach both readers and writers that careful technique is worth more to a novel than verbal brilliance, and that honest, hard thinking is more profitable that most sensitive evocation of sympathy." ... Although Scrimgeour saw his styling as a problem, he also states, "The Great Gatsby is of course brilliant and its historical position as one of the earliest American novels to attempt twentieth century techniques guarantees it a major position in our literary hierarchy." To Scrimgeour, Fitzgerald's technique isn't his taste of literary styling, but...

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Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene" through what he knew or indirectly experienced and discovered the disillusionment that "a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in man shaken", what's more, he depicted the postwar unprecedented boom of material revelry and at the same time presented the disappointment of the postwar generation for America, the concern for the loss of conventional values and ideals, and the re...

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The Great Gatsby - The American DreamThe Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to capture its illusionary goals. This is a common them central to many novels. This dream has varying significances for different...

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Kailynn Sisco 7th period 4-21-15 The Comparison During the roaring twenties social class was an important aspect of society. Usually no lower class citizens would socialize with upper class citizens. In other word "by no means would anyone from a lower class be caught in an uptown setting" (Do...

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