Late Period Stress Flu

fragments of works from the innovators of the narrative of the twentieth century: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (Minnesota, 1896-Hollywood, 1940) was a member of the "Lost Generation" narrators Americans born in the late nineteenth century lived very close to the First World War ended and the subsequent despair at the massive destruction of man by man. The group includes, in addition to Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Steinbeck and nuanced Faulkner.

The Great Gatsby, (1925) is one of the most emblematic of this generation, along with other novels such as Manhattan Transfer (1925) Dos Passos, The Sound and the Fury (1929) Faulkner and A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Hemingway. In The Great Gatsby do not see this wave of innovation that is central to the work of Faulkner or Dos Passos. We are facing a novel formally simple especially enduring keenness to encrypt a simple story of the vicissitudes of human failure.

calls himself the protagonist Jay Gatsby and has but one dream in life: to regain the love of his youth, who broke up years ago to be a pauper than anything I could offer to Daisy, a girl used to live in opulence . However, Gatsby did not resign and was given the task of getting rich, even at the cost of participating in fraudulent dealings. When he is reunited with his beloved and it seems that finally will realize his wish, life is responsible for denying her dearest hopes.

social critique of The Great Gatsby is severe, the individual dreamer, persistent even changing its name, establishing a new identity to leave their marginal status, join the group and thereby gain access to his cherished desire is crushed by a society that, after his pomp, he hides his lack of seriousness, commitment and inability to feel anything more than their narrow and immediate appetites.

In my youth and most vulnerable my father gave me some advice since that time has not stopped me around in my head. "When you feel like criticizing anyone," were his words, "remember that not everyone has had the same opportunities you had."

said no more, but as always we have communicated exceptionally well, despite being very quiet, I realized he meant much more than that. Consequently, I am a person given to reserve all judgments, a habit that has given me the knowledge of a large number of individual persons, but also made me more of a victim of pesky confirmed. The abnormal mind is quick to detect this quality and adhere to normal people who possess it. Having been involved in the secret sorrows of unknown adventurers, in college I was unjustly accused of being political. I did not look much de estas confidencias; a menudo fingía tener sueño o estar reocupado; o cuando gracias a algún signo inconfundible me daba cuenta de que se avecinaba por el horizonte la revelación de alguna confidencia, mostraba una indiferencia hostil. Y es que las revelaciones íntimas de los jóvenes, o al menos la manera como las formulan, son por regla general plagios o están deformadas por supresiones obvias. Reservarse el juicio es asunto de esperanza ilimite. Todavía hoy temo un poco perderme de algo si olvido que como lo insinuó mi padre en forma por demás pretencioso, y yo de la misma manera lo repito-, el sentido fundamental de la buena educación es inequitativamente repartido al nacer.