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the content of his story. The reason why he is a master of modernist writing is because he not only makes his characters uncertain, disjointed, and disillusioned, but he also makes the reader feel that was. He gives the reader a taste of what it was like back in the 1920’s and he does this through the content of his novel.
At the opening of the novel the reader is introduced to the narrator, although they will not find out who the narrator is until a later time. The narrator begins to talk about a character named Gatsby. “ Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn”, (Gatsby 6). “No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive in sorrows and short-winded elation of men”, (Gatsby 6). After reading these excerpts about Gatsby the reader becomes ...

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Fitzgerald uses. It shows how people of the time changed after the war. They no longer felt apart of society, (American Literature 6 ). The third part of modernist content that Fitzgerald used was disillusionment.
Nick is the most disillusioned character in the novel. He arriver in New York thinking that the rich are better than average people. He believes that because they have a large abundance of money that they have no reason to be corrupt or evil, (Gatsby 10-16). As the book progress Nick begins to know who the rich people really are and his views change. He begins to see how corrupted, self-centered, and how irresponsible the rich can be. “ Everyone suspects himself of at least one ...

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