Posted by Lou Pilder on November 5, 2006, at 15:37:17
In reply to Good info/insight...Thanks Lou (nm) » Lou Pilder, posted by kid47 on November 4, 2006, at 9:59:56
Kid47,
There is much more. Fitzgerald saw what was on the horizon and in >Gatsby< there was a warning. His novel was not accepted in greatness untill around 1947. This is in part because of the Great Depression and John Stienbeck's novels that captured the pulse of the country in the 30's and Fitzgerald's death in 1940. In {Gatsby}, what Fitzgerald saw, that was not very clear to many others at the time of publication, and being clouded by the depression later, was becomming very clear after 1947.
I think that {Gatsby}was a forcast for the rise of fascism and IMO helped to bring fascism to an end. The allegory is there when the personages of Jay Gatsby and the Buchanans and the Wilsons are identified allegorically. Which brings up the questions of,
A. Who, or what, then, does Gatsby represent allegorically?
B. What was the dream that Fitzgerald was writing about?
C. Who was Meyer Wolfshiem allegorically?
D. Who were the Nordics?
E. Who did Daisy and Mrs. Wilson represent allegorically?
F. How do the events that culminated in 1947 impact the meaning of the entire novel?
The world can look back at {Gatsby} and I hope that they see the benifit to the world that is contained in a short but profound novel. If Fitzgeral wrote the novel in a hypomanic episode, then it is IMO God's gift to be bipolar.
Lou
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