Fitzgerald is the great Gatsby

Fitzgerald belongs to his age. He is one of representative of "lost generation", resulting from their skeptism towards war. Lost generation is first used by Gertrude Stein to describe the post First World War  generation of American writers; men and women haunted by a sense of betrayal and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness. He lived in Jazz Age that describes the period after the end of First World War, through the Roaring Twenties, ending with the onset of the Great Depression and Jazz Age also is a time of carefree prosperity, great social change and a feverish pursuit of pleasure for Americans. Besides, these were the ten years when the First World War was just over, when new inventions and manufaturing techniques greatly changed the way people lived; when people moved from the countryside in great numbers; when women won the right to vote and many started to earn their own money.

Fitzgerald describes the Jazz Age as "a time of wonder, a time of art, a time of big spenders, but also a mockery of the time" and "an age of mirade, underwritten by the miracle-creating power of Gold". Just as a sentence he wrote in his novel The Great Gatsby "I live within and without". He lived well in that age when he published his book and their books became best-sellers. He married Zelda, who is the girl every man want to marry. However, he also had profound insights and saw the essence of the Jazz Age, so from this point, he lived without.

Zelda is the woman he married. We can say Zelda pushed him to be a great writer by her words"If you want marry me, it is simple , you have to be a man of wealth and fame." Zelda definitely is not the woman of plainness.

The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's masterpiece. The uniqueness of Gatsby is his vagueness or we can also call it Counter-Realism. The publisher once described Gatsby in his letter to Fitzgerald."Gatsby is somewhat vague. The reader's eye can never quite focus on him, his outlines are dim. Now everything about Gatsby is more or less a mystery, that is more or less vague and this may be somewhat of an artistic intention, but I think it is mistaken. Couldn't be physically described as distinctly as the other?"But Fitzgerald insists his set of Gatsby's character.

The writing technique is also remarkable. Fitzgerald use cross-mapping of sight and sound, which started from the music nad then acrossed over into literature. We can say language has very much color in the sound of The Great Gatsby. For example,"Blue garden, yellow music, the blue honey of the Mediterranean."He use "blue" to describe "garden", "yellow" to describe "music", which make the picture vivid and have strong impact to our eyes.