Part one of term paper
After the death and destruction of World War One, people and the world had changed. People no longer conformed to the traditional ways but rebelled and sought out new idea and ways of doing things, this rebellion also flowed into literature. Authors stopped writing in the traditional fashions and because they were no longer restricted in thei ...

Part two of term paper
... transitions, explanations, and resolutions, and thus the modernist era was born. Though out this era there were many great writers such as Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, and T.S. Elliot, but Fitzgerald was on of the best, (American Literature 6 ). In the novel The Great Gatsby he uses all of the techniques of modernist writing to make the reader go back in time to the 1920’s and experience what life and people were like. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses uncertainty, disjointedness ...