The Matrix of Tragedy in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Abstract

All the five novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald are tragic in the end. The matrix of the tragedy is the essential issue of money in connection with love. The paper attempts to analyze the nature and the factors associated with money and love that cause the tragedy. Money in the life of the protagonists of the novels plays so crucial role that it eventually overrules other things like love. Through an analytical discussion an attempt has been made to establish the thesis that it is the role of money-based culture that functions as the matrix of tragedy in the life of the heroes in the "roaring twenties" and a little beyond in America that F. Scott Fitzgerald has drawn in his novels.