Critical Appreciation Of The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous book, The Great Gatsby, grasped the people’s attention and drew them in to love this book. Throughout the book, Fitzgerald goes in depth about the differences between the rich and poor, and with confidence expresses his attitude toward wealth and class. Also, he brings in Romantic fantasy, which involves several affairs and possibly a summer fling between two of his characters. Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He was the third child in the family and also the only son of Edward Fitzgerald and his mother Mary. In 1925, Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby and after its publication it became a huge success but for him he financial suffered. His life became a disaster and he started to drink a lot more heavily than he used to. The Great Gatsby, was a success in its time because of its intriguing detail of the idea of Romantic fantasy and the comparison of the wealthy to the poor. Everyone must of doubted F. Scott Fitzgerald because in the Proquest document it states, “critics and reviewers were understandably caught off-guard when, at the height of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald published a novel that would later not infrequently be cited as the Great American Novel.” Fitzgerald had a lot in mind and his ambition for writing this novel, was to create something new and extraordinary for his time. When he published the book, another thing everyone was so surprised about is, how compact and short he made the