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

Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby and Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock  â The Roaring Twenties infer an age of perpetual celebrating, which reflected next to no of the ethics of the ages going before it. The world, for that age, was quick paced and completely material, swarmed with peculiar and bright characters like David Belasco and Arnold Rothstein. Propelled by this current time's profoundly depleted individuals (Brians), F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock address a large number of similar topics in endeavoring to reestablish the lost age. In building up these subjects, the two creators use climate, the idea of hallucination versus reality and the bearing of time as a method of passing on the guarantee of their fantasy to the residents of the Jazz Age. In both The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Great Gatsby, climate and time of day have a significant impact in establishing the pace and mind-set. Prufrock sets out at night, a period of vulnerability, neither day nor night, to face his past. In like manner, the significant occasions in the Great Gatsby happen at a noteworthy time of day. Once, when Gatsby conversed with Nick about his past, Nick portrays it as a period of disarray, (Fitzgerald 102) which the night opportunity has arrived to represent. Likewise, the hour of conclusive admission in the Great Gatsby was the night Daisy dismissed Gatsby (148). Indeed, even the covering of the night was insufficient to conceal the embitterment of his fantasy. Right now, Gatsby enlightens every bit of relevant information concerning his past and his relationship with Daisy. This past was set in October, just like The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. When Gatsby thinks back through the fogs of time, he sees an ideal ... ...the two creators tried to convey to their social orders, the magnificence of a fantasy uncorrupted by silly fantasies. In utilizing the climate, the idea of hallucination versus reality and the course of time to pass on the guarantee of their fantasy to the residents of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald and Eliot differentiate the dissatisfaction and sadness that was inalienable in a profoundly bankrupt world with the satisfaction normal for a more grounded and less indecent way of life.  Works Cited:  Bewley, Marius. A few 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. New 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 and Noble Books, 1986.