A Comparison of Biographic Features in The Sun Also Rises and The Great

A Comparison of Biographic Features in The lie as well Rises and The with child(p) Gatsby The writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway included biographic information in their novels The Great Gatsby and The sunlight Also Rises that illuminated the meaning of the work. Although The Sun Also Rises is more almost related to actual events in Hemingways life than The Great Gatsby was to events in Fitzgeralds life, they some(prenominal) take the same approach. They twain make use of non-judgemental narrators to comment on the lost times. This narrator allows Fitzgerlald and Hemingway to write about their own society. Fitzgerlald comments on the jaded old-wealth society of the Eastern United States and the corruption of the American Dream. Hemingway comments on the effects of military man War I on the lost generation and the hope for the future in the next generation.By adding biographical features into their novels both Fitzgerald and Hemingway ar suitable to gi ve their novels that extra depth because the plot of the novels are more realistic and accurately reflect the society of the times. The story in Fitzgeralds book contains basic ideas from his life, not nessesarily actual events. Several characters have biographical characterization and the novel reflects his own experiences. Hemingways novel, however, is almost entirely based on actual events that happened to Hemingway and a group of his friends. This enhances the pragmatism of The Sun Also Rises.Fitzgerald and The Great GatsbyIn his novel, The Great Gatsby Francis Scott Fitzgerald includes many autobiographical features to enhance and illuminate the themes of the work. sealed main characters like Daisy Buchannon, Jay Gatsby, and the narrator Nick Carraway are repre... ...emingway are able to enhance the meaning of their work and provide extra credibility and realism into their plot. Fitzzgerald takes a rejection from his life and uses that idea to expand off from to write a s ocial commentary on the corruption of the American Dream by the old-rich of the Eastern United States. Hemingway takes actual events from his life and used that as a basis for the plot of his novel. This enhanced the theme by describing the effect of World War I on Hemingways generation.BibliographyWorks CitedBaker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway, A Life Story. impudent York Charles Scribners Sons, 1969 p147-155Donaldson, Scott. Fool for Love. New York Dell Publishing, 1983Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York Macmillan Publishing Co, 1980Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York Macmillan Publishing Co, 1986