![]() ![]() The present article attempts to demythologize the ideals, if it is in anyway meaningful to call them so, of Gatsby who is considered to be great and venerable. Surprisingly enough, the title turns out to be no more than a mere misnomer ironically referring to a racketeer whose ill-gotten money makes of him a prominent person. Nevertheless, as the book unfolds, the reader comes to realize the irony that lies behind this title, thereby conjuring up the old saying "all that glitters is not gold ". Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the thing that most immediately strikes him is the 'greatness' of the eponymous character which is taken for granted as early as the very title given to it. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a Misnomer Sayed Mohammed Youssef Department of English Language and Literature, College of Languages and Translation, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Abstract: The first moment the reader catches sight of the cover of F. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.Demythologizing the Sacred: F. It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. scott (francis scott), 1896-1940,įiction, romance, historical, 20th century,Īmerican fiction (collections), 20th century,Īmerican literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Young adult fiction, social themes, class differences,įitzgerald, f. Young adult fiction, comics & graphic novels, classic adaptation, ![]() American fiction (fictional works by one author), ![]()
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