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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Structure Of The Great Gatsby:

In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald succeeded in achieving a certain
"disassociation of sensibility" by structuring his book so that both the
"Gatsby" part of himself and that other part-the firm part of his own moral
and intellectual being-would complement rather than dilute each other. Using
the device of a "dual hero" - that is, a first-person narrator who himself
represents one aspect of Fitzgerald's moral vision, he created a work which
is both more and less "autobiographical" than his earlier books.

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