Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is sometimes said that a work of great fiction can take the reader away and deposit him or her in a foreign land or a different time. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a work of fiction that certainly takes the reader far away. The author used various of writing techniques to portray every single character very carefully and gave them unique personalities, by reading this we see not only what happened in the book but also the reflection of American society of the time. People see both their fabulous American Dreams and also their flaws. ...

Ernest Hemingway, the author of The Sun Also Rises, was part of a generation of writers who made their mark on the literary scene beginning in the 1920’s. The end of the Great War had significant effects on the attitudes of many artists, who felt that the values under which they had been raised no longer mattered, because of the sheer horror of the war. The horrific weapons that were used for the first time during this war, such as mustard gas, and the size of the war, which dragged most of the West’s major powers into conflict, ...

Ernest Hemingway, the author of The Sun Also Rises, was part of a generation of writers who made their mark on the literary scene beginning in the 1920’s. The end of the Great War had significant effects on the attitudes of many artists, who felt that the values under which they had been raised no longer mattered, because of the sheer horror of the war. The horrific weapons that were used for the first time during this war, such as mustard gas, and the size of the war, which dragged most of the West’s major powers into conflict, ...