Realism in F. Scott. Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise And The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Unique Literary and Writing Style

Abstract

The importance of including Fitzgerald in American Literature anthologies cannot be overestimated. He believed that he was an original. Fitzgerald's style is completely his own and perhaps the most incomparable aspect of his prose. It is neither so subtly different that it takes perfect pitch to identify nor so eccentric as to be self-consciously sui generis as some other modernist writers. He frequently exploited and became famous for his material rather than because of his technical innovations. The central thematic concerns of Fitzgerald were those of his time and of his country. As writers' material—the subjects, experiences, ideas that they examine and re-examine—is what makes them the kinds of authors they are, this paper tries to investigate more intensely on the influence of three important literary movements: Realism, Modernism and Existentialism on Fitzgerald’s creative works, his material, subjects and themes and techniques and style based on his creative novels