F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fiction examines aspiration, wealth, self-deception, and the distance between an imagined life and lived experience. The Great Gatsby gives these concerns a concentrated form through Nick Carraway’s account of Gatsby’s hopes and the privileged society around him. This Side of Paradise and Tender Is the Night approach ambition and disappointment through different lives and social settings. In the short stories, compressed situations expose the attractions and costs of status, money, and youthful expectations. Lyrical passages sit beside irony, allowing the beauty of a dream and the failure of its moral foundations to remain visible together.