America and the Decay of Morality: The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises Introduction

In this essay, the author

• Explains that america is a popular image in literature and films. dozens of writers sought to expose america's vices and evaluate the consistency of its values, morality, and ethical norms.
• Analyzes how f. scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby and ernest hemingway' 'the sun also rises' are similar in their commitment to the failure of the american dream and its moral hollowness.
• Analyzes how the two modernist writers depict america in the 1920’s in a state of moral decay and the pursuit for material wealth gradually replaces the purity of conventional moral ideals and beliefs in their ways.
• Analyzes how the post-war conditions and social developments of 1920s-america contributed to the increasing decay of moral values and led the characters of both novels to make difficult and, at times, inappropriate choices.
• Analyzes how gatsby is the best representation of how the american dream worked against the social and ethical stability of american society.
• Analyzes how nick's comment demonstrates the failure in the ideal goal. hemingway pursues the same line of ideas to depict his characters as representatives of the lost generation.
• Analyzes how hemingway's the sun also rises depicts the aimlessness of the post-war quest for material wealth and the depth of moral and ethical loss which american people experienced during the 1920s.
• Narrates how they passed ney's statue among the new-leaved chestnut trees in the arc-light. the inscription: from the bonapartist groups, some date: i forget.
• Analyzes how the statue of ney symbolizes the failure of the american dream — the latter had to become a visible representation and remind the americans of their goals and ends.
• Compares the representations of space which both stories' main characters are based in. fiedler argues that the earthly paradise for men only is associated with the west.
• Narrates how he had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close, but the dream was already behind him, somewhere in the vast obscurity beyond the city.
• Opines that gatsby should have stayed in the primitive west. he got in trouble because of daisy's car accident.
• Analyzes fitzgerald and hemingway's view of america of the 1920s as a country filled with autonomy, individualism, cynicism, and obscenity.
• Analyzes how nick is the brightest representation of the autonomous beliefs and values. his autonomy borders on cynicism and leads him to reject his own identity.
• Analyzes how hemingway uses his characters to emphasize autonomy and autonomy, which uniquely combines with the female pursuit for sexuality, sex, and physiological satisfaction.
• Analyzes how fitzgerald uses complex structure to tell gatsby's story or failure of american dream and moral and virtue decay through the most balanced and honest character, nick.
• Analyzes how hemingway developed a prose characterized by conscientious simplicity of diction and sentence structure. the conversation between the count, jake, and brett is an example of what the audience can interpret.
• Analyzes how fitzgerald and hemingway's the great gatsby and the sun also rises portray american failure and pursue its ideals after the end of world war i.