"The Great Gatsby" = Modernism?
Explain the relationship of The Great Gatsby to the movement of modernism. What modernist tenets does it employ? How is the novel modernist?
posted by Greg T at Wednesday, May 09, 2007
posted by Greg T at Wednesday, May 09, 2007
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I believe that The Great Gatsby connects with the modernism movement through Fitzgerald. Scott connects with Gatsby in the sense that they both have new age idolizations such as wealth and luxury. The idea of living life through high society and that of being measured by what you have were modern ideas of his time. The novel as a whole is modernist because of the time in which it came out in, and the point of view in which it was written in.
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Posted by Eddie (doesn't show name)
The modernism that is seen in Gatsby is in the language of the novel.. The language used in this novel is new to the time, making it kind of like what madisson said with it being modern for the time it came out in, nowadays the language is still orginal and uniquely Fitzgerald's. So the modernism is in the words used in this novel because of their implacations for what is really happening and truely describing everything in orginal language
The Great Gatsby connects with modernism with Gatsby and the American Dream of wealth, popularity, happiness, and luxury. Fitzgeralds style of writting, at the time that he wrote this novel, was new to their society.
The relationship between The Great Gatsby and the Modernist movement is well, the imagery and the language of the time. The highlife of the time was new with cars, boats and all the like.
That sort of highlife was not seen until that time with wild parties and that sort of mob thinking.
The Great Gatsby relates to modernism by its portrayal of the American Dream and what it takes to fulfill this dream. Gatsby believes that anything is possible that he can put his mind to. I agree with maddison in how she said that Gatsby gives modern views into wealth and luxury. The Great Gatsby shows us how the American Dream of today has not changed since even the early 1900's.
The great gatsby connects with modernism in that it talks about wealth, popularity, the american dream, luxary and the public figure of youself. This fits perfectly with high school, everyone wants to be the popular cool rich kid with the hottest girl in the school and that drives the nicest car. Thats just how we are.
The Great Gatsby relates heavily to the modernist movement because it deals mainly with the American Dream. Gatsby is also a hero in this novel. Modernist novels have flawed heroes according to our text book. Gatsby has a lot of good qualities, but he is flawed because he is a lonely man who missed out on love. Also, people in the novel are centered around money in a big way. Success is defined by wealth in the American Dream. The more money an individual has, the more successful they are. For example, in Gatsby, Nick is considered a lesser person because he is not as rich as Daisy and Tom. The Great Gatsby is definitely a nontraditional, modern work.
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