F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to "integrate" readers into the story. He made the stories sound realistic, and allowed the readers to become involved in them. He detailed all of the character's physical traits, which allowed the reader to understand the setting and time period of the novel. He also included a lot of dialogue to keep the readers' attention. Fitzgerald could not write about something if he had not experienced it. He could not write about war, for example, because he had never been in one. He could try to imagine what it was like, but it did not sound realistic. He only wrote about things that he experienced at one point or another, and that is why his stories seemed real.
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It makes since that he would write about things that he had experienced. I remember that the Great Gatsby was very realistic about the time period it was set in.
Based on Fitzgeralds style, he very different from other poets. Some poets would just write what ever they felt like because they are poets. But Fitzgerald only wrote by experience. When an author writes from experience, he is more knowledgeable about the topic and I think the reader can more relate to the author. When someone writes from experience, the reader can tell.
I had't payed too much attention, but now that you mention it, it's very interesting to see that. Like someone else mentioned, many other writers do write simply out of the emotion of the moment, many ideas come from a thought, from imagining what it would be like but Fitzgerald writes from experiences which only validates his writing even more, it creates a sense of admiration for the wisdom and knowledge acquired through experience and finally it makes the reader feel and see what he writes.
Yes, all I've read by him was The Great Gatsby which is his masterpiece mostly but that story was able to capture a generation alone without scoping a huge amount of people in detail. It was just a set of different situations which gave way to encompassing the whole of the "lost generation."
His style was very poetic too, and he was extremely meticulous with his writing and how a sentence sounded which is why a lot of the time his works took so long to finish.
Good man. Good choice.
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