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ause he gets the same ability for irresponsibility and the quite oblivious false that he gets in Daisy and Tom. Fitzgerald was born in a big city, so he got a name” city boy” of all his life. His family, moreover, was a part of the St. Paul society, and this condition, in some way, largely influenced the direction of his art and the acute sensibility along his growth. And we can say that, in some way, Fitzgerald’s attitudes were formed by the upper-class’s way of dealing the financial and the social status, nay, it was his heritage. What’s more, the theme just like Gatsby makes his famous remark to Nick before they moving to the New York: “her voice is full of money” in the novel The Great Gatsby could easily get the original source, so his own financial attitude decided the basic gist of the novel. We learned that Fitzgerald was a so-called “city boy”, so he favors the way the “city boy” did, like Tom, is not difficult to understand. Tom, the love rival of Gatsby. Comparing with Gatsby, Tom has his particular or unique notion for love, his love, mostly, depend on the reality. For Tom, love itself is a matter of ego and appetite, it’s not to say that he does not care for Daisy, it is, rather, that his love is on a different level, and he will not pay most of his attention to the idealistic love, however, his love was based on a basic and pragmatic sense. While Gatsby, who was absolutely ruled by his emotion, and pay much attention to the useless things to the real life, however, Tom, who was simple-minded, he only pays his attention to the ideals which are useful to his own position in life, and ruthlessly eliminates any emotion which becomes a threat rather than pleasure. That is the reason why Gatsby will be ultimately destroyed, while like the Tom, who can accommodate and survive. In the novel we learned that Fitzgerald chosen the way of living like Tom, Surviving is the core of life, the main theme of those times of 1920s America. According to the way he used to pursue the girl he loved may concluded that: he has the doubleness in his character. Fitzgerald was the inheritor of tradition which was the financial success was the basic the element in the success of the whole life, and the way to get the success not related to a good citizenship, this, in some way, was the shadow of his upper-class family’s shadow. On the other hand, he also held that the good business was directly related to the good citizenship and social responsibility, which was indicated that the moral attitude and ethic was the strong base in his heart. Just like Nick, the narrator of the novel, got in the end of the novel, he wishes for a world that would stand on the base of moral responsibility eternally. And that the nostalgia for the world was an important aspect in the novel rather than the real life of the author. In a profound sense, he remained a moral provincialism, which was nostalgia for moral qualities showed in the West, and a scorn of the moral nothingness represented by the East, all of which were formed the dramatic structure of the novel. Ⅱ.The Early Days of Fitzgerald and the Appearance of Gatsby The early days of Fitzgerald and Gatsby have many apparent differences; Fitzgerald who was born in a middle-class family, shows great potential to excel as future talents while for Gatsby, owning to his poor family background fails to impress the readers with feeling that he has any potential to become future riches. A. The Early Days of Fitzg