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he is being explicit about it that his power appears. Fitzgerald was a
moralist to a core. He loved the good not only with his mind but also
with his quick senses and his youthful pride and desire.
Gatsby, divided between power and dream, comes inevitably to stand for
America itself. (the American dream)
* William Troy
In ‘Gatsby’ is achieved a dissociation, by which Fitzgerald was able to
isolate one part of himself, the spectatorial or aesthetic, and also the
more intelligent and responsible, in the person of the ordinary but quite
sensible narrator, from another part of himself, the dream-ridden romantic
adolescent.
‘Gatsby’ becomes a symbol of America itself, dedicated to ‘the service
of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty’
* Wright Morris
He might have been the first to dramatize the idea that the only serious
question is suicide.
* Edwin Fussell
Roughly speaking, Fitzgerald's basic plot is the history of the New World ; more precisely, of the human imagination in the New World. It shows it-self in 2 patterns ; quest and seduction. The seduction represents capitu-lation. The quest is the search for romantic wonder, a flight from reality
, from normality, from time, fate, death and the conception of 'limit'
* Andrews Wanning
Fitzgerald's liking for rich company has often enough been noted. How
did a man so sensitive as Fitzgerald come by what is almost a worship of
money? I suppose, because nobody taught him anything else, and he was not
an original thinker.
He was not an articulate moralist, with any conscious thought-out morali-ty.
* Leslie Fiedler
His theme is not love, though love is superficially everywhere in his
writing ; nor it is Europe, though he lived there and set one book and many
stories in the expatriate background. The Rich - their difference from the
rest of us, and the meanings of that difference.
To be 'rich', in the sense he dreamed, is to refuse responsibility, to
deny fate, to try to bribe God.
* Edmund Wilson
He has been given imagination without intellectual control of it ;he has
been given the desire for beauty without an aesthetic ideal ; and he has
been given a gift for expression whthout very many ideas to express.
* Malcolm Cowley
He tried hard to catch the color of every passing year. He felt that his
own life was not merely typical but representative of a new generation ; he
could look inside himself and tell quite accurately how others soon be thin-king.
* F.Scott Fitzgerald himself
I've asked a lot of my emotions - one hundred and twenty stories. The
price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop
of something - not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately
than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it's gone and I'm
just like you now.
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in
one of my own novels.
I'm probably one of the most expert liars in the world.
[참고 서적]
- The great Gatsby / F. S. Fitzgerald
- F. 스코트 핏제럴드 / 정진농

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