Standing the Test of Times
Among the numerous novels over the time, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby reflects the class struggles between society and individualism. Bronte and Fitzgerald’s classic pieces of literature, Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby, have both been reviewed by countless of readers over whether or not the literary works will stand the test of times. Over the decades, novels typically lose cultural insight and tend to become unnoticed. Both Bronte and Fitzgerald have incorporated classic elements such as: the battle between social norms sophistication in writing, and transcendence of individualism. These aid the novels popularity with the readers in such ways as relating it to the reader’s lives.
Through the early nineteenth …show more content…
All different classes were for the most part separated by where people lived. There are a variety of characters in the novel The Great Gatsby that come from different economic backgrounds such as Jay Gatsby, Nick Caraway, and Daisy Buchanan. In the novel, Fitzgerald scrutinizes the Jazz Age generation’s adherence to false values by drawing a contrast between the immorality and shallowness of the East and innocence and virtue of the West (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”). The author does not blatantly describe the extremity of the class disruptions but instead describes them through symbols such as the green light that Gatsby reaches for like “he could barely miss it” (Fitzgerald). This symbolizes the wealth that every person longed for in those times to be an accepted member of society. By Fitzgerald incorporating symbols to get his ideology across of how disgusted he was of his times displays the sophistication of this piece of literature during the century and many to come. Just like The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre incorporates class struggles as a major theme. It is revealed in the beginning in the novel the Jane experiences a rough and unloving childhood. This molds Jane into an …show more content…
For example, Fitzgerald hides within each final sentence a message that pulls together a major theme. Beginning with the final word “darkness” (Fitzgerald) in chapter one and the last word “past” to conclude the book, Fitzgerald closes words to represent a deeper, continuous meaning that pervades the book (Lehan). By doing this, Fitzgerald is able to outline major themes in the novel, including facial expressions, honesty, and balance. This develops a deep though required for the reader to fully grasp the context of the book which poses readers to pay more attention to details and continue to be fascinated with the novel. Jane Eyre also follows this same pattern in its structure of sentences and how it plays a crucial role. She writes in a style that is extraordinarily powerful and expresses quite accurately the meaning she wishes to convey (“Review of Jane Eyre”). Her style is characterized by a command of language, by spontaneity, by chaste simplicity and by differences in choice of words and in combining them into complex sentence structures. She employs a great deal of dialogue and has an excellent ear for the “idioms of class and age” (Bronte). The picture that Charlotte Bronte draws of people and scenes are