These types of characters were Fitzgerald’s favorite to use as narrators, such as Nick Carraway, the semi-innocent commentator and main character of the book I chose to analyze, The Great Gatsby. These people were possessed with an almost unnatural drive to “keep up with the Joneses ” to dedicate their lives to looking much better of than they actually ever could be. ” These were people like Fitzgerald himself: upper-middle class citizens who worked the day away, frittering away their hard-earned money on trinkets and status symbols, so that by night, they could briefly mingle with the ranks of the “beautiful people. In such pieces as “Winter Dreams” and This Side Of Paradise, Fitzgerald turns a scrutinizing eye towards the glamorous decadence of circa 1920’s America, where young “flappers” would bounce from social situation to social situation, looking for the ultimate good time.While many of these socialites were blessed with the financial capacity to stay out all hours of the night party-going and drinking, on the outskirts of this subculture were those who only longed to truly be a part of the “in-crowd. Scott Fitzgerald’s many works, one must first consider his infatuation with all things outwardly beautiful, but inherently flawed. Thus, The Great Gatsby attends to why the notion of love defies any metaphysical or transcendental status and instead it has differential and deferral meaning.When discussing any of F. Accordingly, Gatsby's ultimate failure is expected for the reason that an "absolute moment" is never devoid of any trace of past or future time. Nonetheless, the evanescent fluidity of the notion of love totally ruins Gatsby's chance of ever achieving Daisy's love. Gatsby is exclusively focused on seeking Daisy's transcendental love even at the expense of repeating the past. In this regard, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as one of the most critically studied work in America is recruited to examine the Derridean deconstructive notion of love.
GREAT GATSBY USE OF ABSTRACT LANGUAGE FREE
For Derrida, love as a communicable sign is confined to the rules of iterability which proves the free flow of signifiers. Transcendental or metaphysical love is shorn of meaning in Derridean notion of deconstruction. The net of his deconstructive thinking cast vast enough to devote close critical attention to any previously regarded metaphysical idea like love. As such, he imparts the notion that nothing ever exists outside the text, yet the text is filled with innumerable meanings not a specific one.
In his view, human subjectivity is explained within the system of language and the meaning is conveyed through the concept of difference. Abstract : Jacques Derrida revolutionized the Western Philosophy by reconsidering the previous ideas in a new perspective.
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