The Great Gatsby – Structured
The success of a novel is highly dependent on an author’s skill in arranging words and storylines to create maximum interest for the reader. Structuring a novel involves organizing a chain of events in a manner which will appeal to sensitive readers. F. Scott Fitzgerald (a master of novel development) demonstrates his writing talent by using flashbacks, symbolism and foreshadowing as structural tools in developing his fiction. The temporal devices used to structure Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, serve to expose the corruption present in American society during the 1920’s.Foreshadowing is a temporal device used to indicate the predicted path of the story. Fitzgerald uses foreshadowing both to structurally reinforce his storyline, and to emphasize important events associated with the decadent lifestyle in American society at the time. At the beginning of the novel, narrator Nick Carraway foreshadows Jay Gatsby’s inevitable death after Gatsby’s life of crime. Nick says, “No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end,” (Fitzgerald 8) as he foreshadows Gatsby’s tragic and brutal murder, implying that Gatsby would go through some troublesome times. Fitzgerald foreshadows Gatsby’s tragic demise to stress that illegitimate ways of li
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Approximate Word count = 1264
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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