F. S. Fitzgerald is regarded as the spokesman of the American Jazz Age. He uses the almost perfect language skills to describe the typical riotous atmosphere of that age. His works are famous for their poetic language, neat and firm underlying structures, unique narrative techniques and so forth. Here I just take The Great Gatsby as an example to illustrate his unique narrative techniques. Directness and simplicity are the main characteristics of this novel, but …showed first 75 words of 2037 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2037 total…columns, and this is not the cheap journalistic tone which Fitzgerald could slip into too easily. It helps to describe the chaos of the Jazz Age. The names and rumors are interwoven to show how people are being hurried together to seek the pleasure and money. The sense of the violence is in the air and the presence of the disaster is never far away. All these foreground the tragic end of Gatsby¡¯s life. ¡®