The Last Tycoon - F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald in general

whole idea behind F. Scott Fitzgerald s work historically is a fantastic idea of life wont get any better than this . I appreciate that this sounds a bit odd and a bit defeatist but its a great way to look at life. The central character is often someone who wants it all, but then when he gets it, realises how pointless it all ...

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The depth of this book is such that I certainly can't give justice to it in mere review, but I'm going to try. What a wonderful life this is. And what a wonderful book this is, capturing the essence of the ambition, lust, love and gay abandonment, not only of the 1920s, but of the human spirit itself. Widely regarded as a classic of modern literature, Fitzgerald manages to capture something very American, very modern, very sublime and truly timeless in this novel; from the relatively simple narrative of romantic yearnings, to the greedy ambitions, the lost loves, the complex enchantments, and the underlying despair; this is a journey of life, a musical symphony, a grecian poem ...

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

texts for A-Level English Literature, and I gues that if I hadn't done this, half of the symbolism of the novel would be wasted on me! Fitzgerald, however, manages, through his extremely intelligent and sensitive use of language, to create an atmosphere of lethargy, claustrophobia and hopelessness, which is entirely the focus of the novel. His uses of colour as symbolic also add to the atmosphere of the novel, although Fitzgerald does challenge our natural assumptions on the representation of colour. For example, in The Great Gatsby, the colour white is generally symbolic of wealth and materialism, whereas our natural association would probably associate it ...