Only few American Authors could have one of their novels considered the greatest ever written and have five movie adaptations of it. This critically acclaimed author lived during America’s Jazz age, an era where the U.S was involved in cultural change and few authors could truly depict what was happening. Fitzgerald distinguished himself as an esteemed author through his unique writing style achieving his legendary fame within this era. Fitzgerald’s most unequivocal traits are in correlation with his status as one of America’s greatest authors. His writing style incorporated a genuine sense where his writing mirrored his life, his views, and the essence of the time period, the Jazz Age. Utilizing writings from and about the author, we will
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as Keshmiri & Mahdikihani wrote “ As he wrote solemnly about money… he has been labeled a materialist by his critics” (81). Constant emphasis of these labeled Fitzgerald a materialist, but his writing was truly reflecting all of the American attitude. In a way mirroring the huge consumer economy that America produced, Fitzgerald’s story The Great Gatsby depicts rampant materialism. In the story it is said “At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam” (Fitzgerald 43). James Gatz, one of the main characters would buy in excess from a mansion with a beach to aquaplanes. He hoped his physical possessions would bring him happiness, in the form of the woman he loved and Fitzgerald masterfully emphasised the materialistic attitude of the Jazz Age in Gatz. In the novel “Gatsby sees money as the means to fulfilling his ‘incorruptible dream’ ” (Henderson 6). Fitzgerald saw the era of the Jazz Age focused on money and incorporated it in his writing. The attitude that money could provide happiness only contributed to the Jazz Age’s themes, of which greed is
as Keshmiri & Mahdikihani wrote “ As he wrote solemnly about money… he has been labeled a materialist by his critics” (81). Constant emphasis of these labeled Fitzgerald a materialist, but his writing was truly reflecting all of the American attitude. In a way mirroring the huge consumer economy that America produced, Fitzgerald’s story The Great Gatsby depicts rampant materialism. In the story it is said “At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam” (Fitzgerald 43). James Gatz, one of the main characters would buy in excess from a mansion with a beach to aquaplanes. He hoped his physical possessions would bring him happiness, in the form of the woman he loved and Fitzgerald masterfully emphasised the materialistic attitude of the Jazz Age in Gatz. In the novel “Gatsby sees money as the means to fulfilling his ‘incorruptible dream’ ” (Henderson 6). Fitzgerald saw the era of the Jazz Age focused on money and incorporated it in his writing. The attitude that money could provide happiness only contributed to the Jazz Age’s themes, of which greed is