I often find myself asking this question. F Scot Fitzgerald, the man who was named after Francis Scott Key the writer of our National Anthem. How did he with a few words truly make us all understand that which is the hardest to see. What is that? The meaning, the true meanign of his novel: The Great Gatsby.
The main point in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic is who is the real person in ourselves?
Fitzgerald knew better than anyone, there's the "real person" nobody sees. This is where all of the fears hide, and we hide this persont he best we can.
Then there's the mask. F. Scott Fitzgerald's "mask" was varied, and changed often. As many of us do on a daily basis. We are a student, parent, sibling, daughter/son, coworker, etc, etc.
We are also what others see us as. As F. Scott Fitzgerald put it, the man we are when the demons are looking jotting on peices of paper. Thsi si the most important person, because this is the person we are judged as, we are seen to be, and we are stereotyped in. In F Scot Fitzgerald's The Great Gastby: Gatsby spent every waking moment developing and redeveloping this person to the point of perfection. Everyoen wanted him and everyone wanted to be him.
What makes him diferent than everyone else is he did this for love, not for his own personal gain!!
So who are you? So are you truly? Is F. Scott Fitzgerald right, we are the person that everyone sees or are we more than that?
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