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Fitzgeralds extensive Gatsby and Eliots The do it melodic line of J. Alfred Prufrock The Roaring Twenties bring to mind a generation of endless partying, which reflected very little of the morals of the generations preceding it. The world, for that generation, was fast-paced and soundly material, crowded with bizarre and colorful characters like David Belasco and Arnold Rothstein. Inspired by this eras spiritually exhausted people (Brians), F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and T. S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock address many an(prenominal) of the same themes in attempting to restore the lost generation. In developing these themes, both(prenominal) authors utilize weather, the concept of illusion versus reality and the direction of sentence as a mode of take ining the promise of their dream to the citizens of the Jazz Age. In both The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Great Gatsby, weather and time of twenty-four hour period play an heavy part in setting the tone and mood. Prufrock sets extinct in the eventide, a time of uncertainty, neither day nor night, to confront his away. Likewise, the important events in the Great Gatsby occur at a significant time of day. Once, when Gatsby talked to Nick about his past, Nick describes it as a time of confusion, (Fitzgerald 102) which the evening time has come to symbolize. Also, the time of final confession in the Great Gatsby was the night Daisy rejected Gatsby (148). Even the covering of the night was not affluent to hide the disenchantment of his dream. At this time, Gatsby tells the whole truth about his past and his relationship with Daisy. This past was set in October, as was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. When Gatsby looks back through the mists of time, he sees a perfect ... ...both authors sought to excrete to their societies, the beauty of a dream uncorrupted by senseless illusions. In using the weather, the concept of illusion versus realit y and the direction of time to convey the promise of their dream to the citizens of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald and Eliot contrast the frustration and despair that was inborn in a spiritually bankrupt world with the fulfillment diagnostic of a more grounded and less immoral lifestyle. Works Cited Bewley, Marius. Some Notes on The Great Gatsby. Mizener 70-76. Eliot, T.S.. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams. unseasoned York Norton, 1996. 2459-2463. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. New York Scribner Classic, 1986. Pinion, F. B. A T.S. Eliot Companion. Totowa Barnes & Noble Books, 1986.