Today in class we finished our Summative on Gatsby Romanticism v Modernism. I wrote my paper on how “The Great Gatsby” was a modernist because Fitzgerald used a lot of grey areas. He wrote everything in pieces and having us figure out how to put his puzzle together. You can apply the changes in modernist philosophy to help better literary trends. In pre-Modernism, time is Linear (absolutely and always). Modernists: time is Relative (changes based on time). Modern dialect is the use of perception to see the gasps in truth; and the truth is binary. 
Romanticism is the complete opposite of modernism. Romanticism is literally grey, but we're not dealing with a grey area. Negative tone about this place and its effect on people. Diustrusts progress - industrial revolution. Absolute romantics know whether the ending is good or bad or justified or unfair. Absolutes are truth, beauty, good, evil, etc.
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