American Icon: Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in Critical and Cultural Context. In Fitzgerald’s novel, the memories of the Roaring Twenties are deconstructed as they are identified with the collective pursuit of material wealth, the hunger for power and social position, the culture of consumption, and the subsequent reduction of people to commodities. Nick’s narrative simultaneously operates as the collective and cultural memory of the Roaring Twenties as experienced by the characters of the novel and the Fitzgeralds themselves. In his recollections, Nick Carraway “writes” Gatsby through voluntary memory production, dependence on visual perception and specific spatial, material and temporal factors, utilization of hearsay, fist-hand and second-hand memories, biographical memories, fictionalized narrative, rememory, (re)living of emotions, chronicle, history proper, and a number of different memory conveyors. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) by looking at how the narrator combines both his individual and national shared memories and creates Jay Gatsby’s story as well as the stories of his family, his hometown, his Middle West, and his 1922 New York experience. This chapter examines Nick Carraway’s memories of Jay Gatsby and his own life in F.
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