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I read The Great Gatsby penned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, when I had taken the American novel writing in my literature course. And I had become a fan of Fitzgerald’s style and manner, which got me into reading most of his works and other writers of his time. Novels of 19 th century America may be considered at one level as social visionaries. American novels gained its inspiration from there contemporary British novels. The British novelists like Dickens, Disraeli wrote with a reformative zeal. On the other hand American novelists were not interested in reforming their society instead they put their moral energies in portraying the evils in their society. When they were bedeviled by moral issues in their social environment such as slavery, child labor and democratic equality. Fitzgerald with Great Gatsby became the novelist of the great rebellion. In his writing there was a double sense of involvement and detachment which made him the immediate historian of an age, he was half living