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 manner ceaselessly tormented by an emergency of character. Jay Gatsby, however he battles to be a piece of this world, remains unalterably an outcast. His life is an excellent incongruity, in that it is a cartoon of Twenties-style conspicuousness: his wardrobe floods with hand crafted shirts; his grass overflows with the ideal individuals, all occupied with the genuine work of supreme detail; his idiosyncrasies (his bogus British articulation, his old-kid kind disposition) are ludicrously influenced. In spite of this, he can never be genuinely a piece of the debasement that encompasses him: he remains characteristically extraordinary. Nick Carrway mirrors that Gatsby's assurance, his grandiose objectives, and in particular the terrific character he had always wan ted sets him over his disgusting counterparts. F. Scott Fitzgerald develops Gatsby as a genuine American visionary, set against the rot of American culture during the 1920s. By praising the shocking destiny of visionaries, Fitzgerald in this way reprimands 1920s America as a period of visual deficiency and avarice an age unfriendly 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 celebrate this courageous variant of the American Dreamer in the pages of his novel. Rather, Fitzgerald proposes that the cultural defilement which won during the 1920s was interestingly ungracious to visionaries; truth be told, it was these men who drove the most shocking 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