Comparing Fitzgeralds Great Gatsby and Eliots The Love Song of J. Alf

Fitzgeralds Great Gatsby and Eliots The Love claim of J. Alfred Prufrock The Roaring Twenties bring to fountainhead a generation of endless partying, which reflected very little of the morals of the generations anterior it. The humanity, for that generation, was fast-paced and thoroughly material, crowded with bizarre and colorful characters like David Belasco and Arnold Rothstein. stir by this eras spiritually exhausted people (Brians), F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and T. S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock address many of the same themes in attempting to restore the lost generation. In developing these themes, both authors utilize survive, the concept of illusion versus reality and the means of time as a mode of conveying the promise of their day-dream to the citizens of the Jazz Age. In both The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Great Gatsby, weather and time of day play an important part in place the tone and mood. Prufrock sets out in the evening, a time of uncertainty, neither day nor dark, to confront his past. Likewise, the important events in the Great Gatsby occur at a significant time of day. Once, when Gatsby talked to Nick about his past, Nick describes it as a time of confusion, (Fitzgerald 102) which the evening time has come to symbolize. Also, the time of final plea in the Great Gatsby was the night Daisy rejected Gatsby (148). Even the covering of the night was not enough to hide the disenchantment of his dream. At this time, Gatsby tells the whole fairness about his past and his relationship with Daisy. This past was set in October, as was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. When Gatsby looks back through the mists of time, he sees a completed ... ...both authors sought to communicate to their societies, the beauty of a dream uncorrupted by senseless illusions. In using the weather, the concept of illusion versus reality and the mode of time to convey the promise of their drea m to the citizens of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald and Eliot contrast the licking and despair that was inherent in a spiritually bankrupt world with the fulfillment characteristic of a more grounded and less immoral lifestyle. plant Cited Bewley, Marius. Some Notes on The Great Gatsby. Mizener 70-76. Eliot, T.S.. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams. naked York Norton, 1996. 2459-2463. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. New York Scribner Classic, 1986. Pinion, F. B. A T.S. Eliot Companion. Totowa Barnes & Noble Books, 1986.