Destruction and Failure of a Generation in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsb

The Great Gatsby and the Destruction of a Generation   â The excellence and wonder of Gatsby's gatherings covers the rot and defilement that lay at the core of the Roaring Twenties. The general public of the Jazz Age, as saw by Fitzgerald, is ethically bankrupt, and in this way constantly tormented by an emergency of character. Jay Gatsby, however he battles to be a piece of this world, remains unalterably an untouchable. His life is a great incongruity, in that it is a cartoon of Twenties-style flashiness: his storage room floods with hand crafted shirts; his garden overflows with the opportune individuals, all occupied with the genuine work of supreme technicality; his characteristics (his bogus British articulation, his old-kid kind disposition) are absurdly influenced. In spite of this, he can never be really a piece of the defilement that encompasses him: he remains inherently incredible. Nick Carrway mirrors that Gatsby's assurance, his elevated objectives, and in particular the great character he had always wanted sets him ov er his foul counterparts. F. Scott Fitzgerald develops Gatsby as a genuine American visionary, set against the rot of American culture during the 1920s. By lauding the heartbreaking destiny of visionaries, Fitzgerald in this way reproves 1920s America as a time of visual impairment and covetousness an age threatening to crafted by dreaming. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald proclaims the destruction of his own age.  Since America has consistently held its business visionaries in the most elevated respect, one may anticipate that Fitzgerald should extol this gallant form of the American Dreamer in the pages of his novel. Rather, Fitzgerald recommends that the cultural defilement which won during the 1920s was extraordinarily unwelcoming to visionaries; actually, it was these men who drove the most sad existences of all... ...ible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan during the 1920s. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. Defender, Leslie. A few Notes on F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mizener 70-76. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. New York: Scribner Classic, 1986. Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Extremes. New York: Pantheon, 1994. Posnock, Ross. 'A New World, Material Without Being Real': Fitzgerald's Critique of Capitalism in The Great Gatsby. Critical Essays on Scott Fitzgerald's Extraordinary Gatsby. Ed. Scott Donaldson. Boston: Hall, 1984. 201-13. Raleigh, John Henry. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Mizener 99-103. Spindler, Michael. American Literature and Social Change. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983. Trilling, Lionel. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Critical Essays on Scott Fitzgerald's Extraordinary Gatsby. Ed. Scott Donaldson. Boston: Hall, 1984. 13-20. Â