The Narration of F. Scott Fitzgerals The Great Gatsby and essays

The Narration of F. Scott Fitzgerals The Great Gatsby and essays There are multiple ways to dictate a novel to a reader and the use of narration can give more incite into the characters. Narration is the use of a character to tell a story either to the reader or other characters often called the narratee. (Hawthorn, 228). Two authors that use different forms of narration are Toni Morrison in her novel Beloved and, F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel The Great Gatsby. While Morrisons novel conveys the harsh realities associated with slavery in Cincinnati (Harris, 277). Fitzgeralds story depicts the high life of upper class individuals in New York during the 1920s (Harris, 111) Morrisons novel has multiple narrators that build an image of the depth of slavery. This is because the narratee can read about all of the people affected by this event. Multiple narrators also constructs the image of caring for each other because they all speak their emotions through an omniscient presence.. An entirely opposite effect is created by Fitzgerald in, The Great Ga tsby by his use of one narrator. The use of one narrator in this novel personifies the narrow attitutudes of the upper class characters and their lack of compassion for one another. The narrator in, The Great Gatsby is of upper-class and his perspective is narrow, whereas the multiple narrators in Beloved have diverse life experiences and help each other. These two perspectives accentuate the characters and their experiences. Nick, the Narrator in The Great Gatsby, is surrounded by people of the same social class. This revelation is first revealed on page six of Fitzgeralds text when Nick states: My family has been a prominent, well-to-do people in the Middle Western city for three generations (Fitzgerald, 6). Nick belongs to a family that made its money in a wholesale hardware while fostering the myth of their decent from the Dukes of Beuccleuch (Kerr, 407). His family is recognized in high so...