Comparing Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby And In Dubious Battle
By reading literature from the different eras of American History, one can begin to understand how different American Society’s beliefs and attitudes are when contrasted against another era. The novels The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and In Dubious Battle, written by John Steinbeck, are two novels written about “Roaring Twenties”, when Americans were known to flaunt their wealth, and The Great Depression, where the entire country was in a deep recession and the average workers had no rights, these novels show how the views of Americans were forever changed in a single decade. The Great Gatsby is the story of Nick Carraway, a bonds broker, who befriends the mysterious Jay Gatsby, who introduces him into a world of sex, lies, and revenge
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This is because Fitzgerald’s story glamorized the society, lifestyle, before tearing it apart, while Steinbeck’s story only focused on members of the communist party’s attempt to organize a labor strike while failing to write about the background of the workers' situation, and providing little details about the country itself was doing. So while it does accurately portray the struggle of communists who tried to organic labor strikes, it failed to demonstrate any other details about the world at the time. While Fitzgerald in writing the Great Gatsby chooses the topic of writing about high class socialites, a topic which dominated the 1920s, while the idea of communist union organizers was not as well known or documented at the time. Since the very topic of communists organizing labor unions, and migrant workers were incredibly unpopular topics at the time, many readers would not was not a large topic during the recession, it becomes that much more difficult to judge the accuracy of In Dubious
This is because Fitzgerald’s story glamorized the society, lifestyle, before tearing it apart, while Steinbeck’s story only focused on members of the communist party’s attempt to organize a labor strike while failing to write about the background of the workers' situation, and providing little details about the country itself was doing. So while it does accurately portray the struggle of communists who tried to organic labor strikes, it failed to demonstrate any other details about the world at the time. While Fitzgerald in writing the Great Gatsby chooses the topic of writing about high class socialites, a topic which dominated the 1920s, while the idea of communist union organizers was not as well known or documented at the time. Since the very topic of communists organizing labor unions, and migrant workers were incredibly unpopular topics at the time, many readers would not was not a large topic during the recession, it becomes that much more difficult to judge the accuracy of In Dubious