The short story that I found to be most interesting in the aspects to elements of fiction was called “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author uses many strong elements that help grant the reader the full picture of the story from many different angles. The unique way F.Scott Fitzgerald is able to shift his dictation and syntax brings the reader to morally question things going on in their own life, producing provocative ideas and new ways of thinking after reading the story. The story takes place in early 1930’s during The Great Depression in Paris France. The Great Depression was a severe world wide economic crisis in which the stock market plummeted by more than 50%. During the time before the disaster, culture seemed to be different. People were partying like there was going to be no tomorrow.
At the pinnacle of those wild days in 1929, men like Charlie Wales, the main character, feel like divine beings. They envisioned that they controlled the whole world, even the climate itself. This bloated vision is made apparent when Charlie says, “The men who locked their wives out in the snow, because the snow of twenty-nine wasn 't real snow. If you didn 't want it to be snow, you just paid some money.”(Fitzgerald) Men at that time treated their wives more like possessions. The author really makes Charlie illustrative of a …show more content…
Even with a dark past always being ever omniscient in the back of his mind, it showed that at the lowest point in your life, family would still never turn their back on you: for rich or poor. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald showcased many thought invoking elements of fiction throughout the short story, and this causes the reader to make their own assumptions for the end of the mystery of Charles J. Wales, of Prague
At the pinnacle of those wild days in 1929, men like Charlie Wales, the main character, feel like divine beings. They envisioned that they controlled the whole world, even the climate itself. This bloated vision is made apparent when Charlie says, “The men who locked their wives out in the snow, because the snow of twenty-nine wasn 't real snow. If you didn 't want it to be snow, you just paid some money.”(Fitzgerald) Men at that time treated their wives more like possessions. The author really makes Charlie illustrative of a …show more content…
Even with a dark past always being ever omniscient in the back of his mind, it showed that at the lowest point in your life, family would still never turn their back on you: for rich or poor. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald showcased many thought invoking elements of fiction throughout the short story, and this causes the reader to make their own assumptions for the end of the mystery of Charles J. Wales, of Prague