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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway is not only best friends, rivals and fellow members of the Lost Generation literary movement, also helped the US again identity post world war II world. Rather than simply build a new kind of nationalism, however, actively dissected and deflated American archetypes as a self-made man, and the hardened gangster. And what better time to be putting people’s sense of reality than in 1920, when everyone was depressed at the same time the First World War, very rich in the stock market and illegally drunk for an entire decade?
Published in 1922, just after the post-war recession ended, Fitzgerald’s “The Diamond as big as the Ritz” with a sharp criticism of the lavish lifestyles Fitzgerald in 1920 after too familiar with. John Unger, a boarding school child spends the summer estate of his friend Percy Washington in the middle of nowhere, Montana. More precisely, it is located “where the United States is over” – figuratively speaking, anyway, than the US government does not recognize its existence. (And as the castle sits on a flawless diamond the size of a small mountain, the Washington family wants to keep it that way.)
of the family’s wealth “beyond the human desire or a dream,” and John so overwhelmed that barely able to remain conscious. The fact that the estate’s name after the “El Dorado” is a mythical Amazonian city of gold not only increases can be detected unreality of the place, but also suggests the Spanish conquistadors’ predatory pursuit of wealth, creepily, the Washingtons house about 250 slaves, who tricked into believing that the north has lost the civil war. This universe is so tightly regulated, the fact is that when it comes to gardening, gardener, architect, designer, poet and try to “agree on the location of a well” together, they lose their minds, and each sent an asylum.
What really makes the situation absurd, but not the otherworldliness, but the fact that everyone living there is so apathetic about it. the family believes some of their most beautiful thing “old junk”. Jasmine is so deteriorated that she pushed her father down the stairs as a child, and no one batted an eye. the men try to murder outsiders minimal because “upsets” the women. Mr. Washington refers to the incident in which he killed his own brother as “unfortunate”. They get imprisoned in the ground because of the practical things captured soldiers. The list goes on.
The full emotional compartmentalization features The Diamond as big as the Ritz same thing that Hemingway’s 1927 classic American detective story The Killers tick. The story starts with two poorly dressed man named Max and Al entering the restaurant and try their dinner. 6:00 As it is not, they are not limited to lunch menu items only. They are fighting with the manager for a few pages, harass the patrons, it will lead everyone to the back room of the restaurant and take about two hours. It turns out that they are both assassins on a mission to kill a boxer who is not expected to cooperate in the fight manipulated. Yes, this sounds remarkably like the plot of Pulp Fiction.
The surreal atmosphere of the story is not only that Max and Al in two trained killers who spend the first quarter of the story to argue with ginger and egg salad sandwiches, but the strange setting of the restaurant. The clock, for example, is said to be twenty minutes fast – and because Hemingway is not always determined by reference to the time of the restaurant or in real time, both the readers and the killers are both confused by it. (Not to mention, the only thing that is surreal as an incorrect clock is a melting one.)
weirder is the fact that Max spends sitting all night directly opposite the manager, but carried through every conversation mirror behind the counter. If this is not reversed in reality, it is the fact that you get the max so bored waiting for her to kill him, that he actually reduced the ol ‘seen any good movies lately? What’s more, when Nick is one restaurant patrons finally the footsteps of the fighters to warn the assassins, the guy can not be bothered to defend himself. that’s the fighting spirit. Or the glorification of American gangster, for that matter.
the juxtaposing game situations are completely apathetic characters Fitzgerald and Hemingway create scenarios feel impossible, but all too real; what remains of the readers throat is not as crimes, but committed them by completely ordinary characters in the zillionaires accustomed to it. of family life. the assassins did not want to cold sandwiches for dinner. in other circumstances, these behaviors would not give us a moment’s pause, but behind the killings and destruction that hits uncomfortably close to home. There’s a reason why I like the movie of the villains and evil eyepatches cluck or dissect serial killers hoping to deformations of the brain: the last thing we want to see ourselves in these situations.
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Source by Paul Thomson