In his earlier works, Fitzgerald made the mistake of over developing his characters and asking them to sound like “more than what they are” (Petri). While some may say he is overcompensating, due to its success as a novel, Fitzgerald learned from his past mistakes and fixed what was wrong in his earlier works. In The Great Gatsby, Kathryn Schulz criticizes Fitzgerald for lack of character development, stating that the characters function only as types and not as human beings. Furthermore that Fitzgerald does not understand his characters, not taking the same time as he did developing the plot and symbols, or even “conceive of them as human.” However, she is completely missing the central idea to the novel. Stating that Fitzgerald does not understand
