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Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Babylon Revisited.(F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20070322
Author:Sutton, Brian

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "Mostly, we authors repeat ourselves. [... W]e tell our two or three stories--each time in a new disguise--maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen" ("One Hundred" 132). Whether Fitzgerald's generalization applies to most authors, even his strongest admirers (and I am one) would concede that it applies to him.

Usually, the pattern in Fitzgerald's fiction is for material to appear first in his short stories and later in his novels. As Matthew J. Bruccoli points out, Fitzgerald's stories sometimes "introduce or test themes, ...

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