The story’s events have apparently been scrambled, but it is in fact the sign of artistic order. The tragic dimension is also increased due to the facts that all the events have occurred before the curtain rises. In the final version, all the action unfolds during one summer – from mid June to early September – and the geographical location is confined to New York, Long Island: East Egg and West Egg. The second important change concerned the order of the events and the fact that in the original version it was Gatsby who spoke.
This fragment was then turned into a short story Absolution that was published in a review Mercury.Ģ. Fitzgerald suppressed a long episode of Gatsby’s childhood in order to heighten the sense of mystery surrounding his protagonist’s youth. It appears that two important changes were introduced:ġ. In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald condensed the story’s events.
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