Essay Comparing Hemingways A Very Short Story and Fitzgeralds This Si

Comparing Hemingways A Very succinct Story and Fitzgeralds This Side of Paradise   When you prototypical read a tragical, dramatic love scene you feel like your heart is breaking too. sometimes you cry. It is only after the initial rush of feelings that you begin to feel cheated. unremarkably the kind of writing that gives you the urge to be demonstrative does not bear with you as long as something more subtle. In Scott Fitzgeralds This Side of Paradise, the indorser is presented with such a love scene in the form of a play. I admit to having sobbed for a solid minute after interpretation well-nigh the ill-fated ro gayce amid Amory Blaine and Rosalind Connage. However, the same subject, with different characters, told in a much more concise, objective manner in Ernest Hemingways A Very Short Story had a much deeper effect on me.   It may be that the honesty of experience had much to do with the differences between the stories. This Side of Paradise is often seen a s a loosely establish autobiography, notwithstanding there is no direct basis in world for the Amory and Rosalind episode. Fitzgerald did have a turbulent relationship with his wife Zelda, but the tragic parting in the novel and Rosalinds later marriage to another man firmly place the story in the realm of fiction. Hemingways account of the brush and parting of two lovers, on the other hand, comes forthwith from his own life. while there is a feeling in This Side of Paradise that Fitzgerald is try too hard to gather in the story realistic, Hemingways account cannot help but convey the honesty that is generally found when a writer draws directly on his own experience.   The style and structure of the Hemingway story also make it more believable and more effective. Even the... ...ing in a machine politician cab through Lincoln Park, that Hemingways protagonist tried to forget about his lost love by indulging in the more shallow gratification of easy sex. Fitzgeralds Amor y Blaine turns to alcohol instead, but the concept is the same. However, after social club pages of Amorys bar exploits we have already begun to forget what the problem was in the first place.   Two more disparate accounts of a short-lived love would be difficult to find. Each is successful in its own way. The Fitzgerald version elicit an immediate and powerful reaction from me, but it was the Hemingway story that made me apprehend the subject more deeply. While A Very Short Story, at first glance, may seem unable to convey the depth and fullness of feeling of the longer Fitzgerald passage, it actually accomplishes its aim more quickly without sacrificing meaning.