Concetti Chiave
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer born in Minnesota who rose to fame with his first novel after joining the army.
- He and his wife lived a luxurious life, moving to France where he published The Great Gatsby, which initially did not achieve significant success.
- The Great Gatsby tells the story of James Gatz's unrequited love for Daisy and highlights themes of materialism and the corrupted American Dream.
- Jay Gatsby is depicted as a romantic hero with a mysterious past, while Nick, the narrator, represents moral integrity and cultural contrasts.
- Fitzgerald employs a non-linear narrative structure with flashbacks, using sensory details to vividly portray society and human nature.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
FS Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota, USA, and studied at Princeton. When the USA entered the First World War he joined army and started writing his first novel which soon became a success and brought him money and popularity. So he led, with his wife, a glamorous life and moved to France where he published The Great Gatsby, his finest work, which didn’t have the expected success. He died in 1940 in the USA.
The Great Gatsby
The novel is about James Gatz, who falls in love with a woman, Daisy, while he was in the army.
Jay Gatsby is presented as a mysterious character, with an hidden past. He embodies the romantic hero and the self-made man. Through Gatsby, Fitzgerald underlined the idea that the American Dream was corrupted by materialism. Nick is the only character who shows in the novel a moral sense and decency and embodies the opposition between East and West.
Nick is the narrator of the novel, who looks back at an experience to better understand it. Fitzgerald uses lots of flashbacks and he does not follow a chronological order in his narration. The style is characterized by the frequent use of senses and details that helped him describe society and men.
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