![]() ![]() They were like zombies moving around from party to party, ignoring the cultural and moral aspects of life. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,Īnd each man fixed his eyes before his feet.įitzgerald’s characters, also morally and spiritually dead, were American through and through. I had not thought death had undone so many. ![]() Like Eliot he was an American, however his focus was not on the ‘Unreal City’ of London, where the inhabitants moved around like dead souls from Dante’s Inferno: Unreal City,Ī crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, Fitzgerald in his novel The Great Gatsby.įitzgerald was a very different individual and a very different writer. Eliot’s poetic portrayal of the early 20th century ended with the line, “The dehumanisation of the modern world is complete.” This ‘dehumanisation’, which Eliot portrayed as a waste land in his poetry, was also described very clearly in prose by F. The situation that plagued the world after World War One was one of callous apathy and emotional aridity. ![]()
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