Examples Of Modernism In The Great Gatsby

Stories and Modernism

Jose A. Romero

Keiser University Stories and Modernism

Modernism is best known as a movement where society goes through changes. The changes are related to literature and art. During this period the American society suffered the devastating effects of World War I, the market’s depression and World War II. Modernism movement happened between the years 1900 and 1950. During this period many writers expressed their ideas, helping and guiding the society to understand those changes that would come during this period.

Mina Loy was a British modernist artist, writer and novelist. As a modernist writer, she expressed her ideas of changes. Over the years, women started to feel more power and started revealing themselves during the 20th century. They felt that they had rights that were not being given, which made them angry and they started to protest. Mina Loy with her particular thought went beyond the demands to write the “Feminist Manifesto”. In this manifesto, Mina Loy was calling for a revolution of gender relations. Making her protagonist in this period of modernism,

After all the events occurred during the 20th century that caused the crash market, Americans were in poverty and disillusioned. These are some characteristics that are quite linked with the changes of the modernist period. Moreover, in this return of Charlie to Paris, as Fitzgerald states “He thought, I spoiled this city for myself. I didn’t realize it, but the days came along, after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.” (Fitzgerald 1929, p2166). After the crash market he lost all the money he used to have, now he is facing a new lifestyle. The modernist period is also marked with a great depression in the market for the Americans and many of them were disappointed about these changes because after having it all, many lost everything and fell into