Fitzgerald had longed to become a writer since childhood, and when the opportunity came, he used his skills to speak to his audiences about what was he was happening to the country. Beneath all of the glitz and glamour of the 1920s was a distasteful sense of materialism that he believed would not benefit the country in any way. It took away from the country’s old identity of fulfilling the “American Dream,” and the wealthy would only continue to grow in prosperity while the poor suffered. Fitzgerald wanted to convey this to his readers and show that there was much more than what was seen on the surface in terms of what the country was becoming.
No comments:
Post a Comment