Essay Comparing Hemingways A Very Short Story and Fitzgeralds This Si

Comparing Hemingways A Very Short Story and Fitzgeralds This Side of Paradise   When you first read a tragic, melodramatic love depiction you feel like your heart is breaking too. Sometimes you cry. It is only by and by the initial rush of feelings that you begin to feel cheated. Usually the kind of writing that gives you the chirk up to be demonstrative does not stay with you as long as something more subtle. In Scott Fitzgeralds This Side of Paradise, the reader is presented with such a love injection in the form of a play. I admit to having sobbed for a solid minute after reading about the ill-fated romance between Amory Blaine and Rosalind Connage. However, the aforementioned(prenominal) causa, with different characters, told in a much more concise, objective manner in Ernest Hemingways A Very Short Story had a much deeper ramp up 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 as a loosely found autobiography, but there is no direct basis in reality for the Amory and Rosalind episode. Fitzgerald did have a turbulent relationship with his wife Zelda, but the tragic separate in the novel and Rosalinds later marriage to another man firmly place the story in the realm of fiction. Hemingways account of the meeting and parting of deuce lovers, on the other hand, comes directly from his own life. While there is a feeling in This Side of Paradise that Fitzgerald is trying too hard to make 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 body structure of the Hemingway story also make it more believable and more effective. Even the... ...ing in a taxi cab through Lincoln Park, that Hemingways protagonist tested to forget about his lost love by indulging in the more shallow gratification of easy sex. Fitzgeralds Amory Blaine turns to alcohol instead, but the concept is the same. However, after nine 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 elicited an immediate and powerful reaction from me, but it was the Hemingway story that made me understand the subject more deeply. While A Very Short Story, at first glance, may seem unable to convey the depth and breadth of feeling of the long-run Fitzgerald passage, it actually accomplishes its aim more quickly without sacrificing meaning.