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this short story to be the origins story of Jay Gatsby makes absolute sense to me, . . the persona Rudolph takes on, the priest asking him of if hes ever been to parties and fairs, the “when people get together in the best places things go glimmering” quote.
. . I don't have much to say about this one, It was cool to know that this might have been the prologue to The Great Gatsby, It's one of the sadder stories and I felt bad for the boy, I hated the dad. It's one of the stories where it felt incomplete and I wanted more, It was as if this was a chapter in a longer novel about the character's lives, "Absolution" is a short story by American writer F, Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in hiscollection All the Sad Young Men,.A young boy goes to church for a confession well I guess Im gonna be doing some research as to what if anything this means, Has a strong Dubliners feel to it, Also, a window into Jay Gatsby, “There was once a priest with cold, watery eyes, who, in the still of the night, wept cold tears, Sometimes, near four oclock, there was a rustle of Swede girls along the path by his window, and in their shrill laughter he found a terrible dissonance that made him pray aloud for the twilight to come several times he had walked past Rombergs Drug Store when it was dusk and the yellow lights shone inside and the nickel taps of the sodafountain were gleaming, and he had found the scent of cheap toilet soap desperately sweet upon the air.
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Through the prism of a Catholic confession with Rudolph Miller in his fantasies Blatchford Sarmenington and whom Fitzgerald intended to be the younger Gatsby, or rather, Gatz and the dying Father Schwartz perhaps an echo of Fitzgeralds own priest, the reader watches repression, fantasy, temptation and distance play out.


Tanner suggest that one could take the dying words of the Father as “the delirious regret for all the sexuality and glamour, the heat and light, that, as a celibate priest, he has repressed and kept his distance from.
” Tanner muses that Fitzgeralds work is imbued with “a confused and inarticulate longing”, a sort of NeoPlatonism which conceives of the world as an emanation from an ultimate indivisible being with whom the soul is capable of being reunited in trance or ecstasy e.
g. Daisy, whom Gatsbys whole existence revolves around, Furthermore, “there is a crucial difference between Dexter Greens desire to possess the glittering things and Father Schwartzs advice to stand back from the glittering light, and it lies precisely in the latters apprehension that getting too close might be dangerous, ruinous to the vision of earthly and heavenly delights.
” Gatsby is a voyeur, a shadow silhouette, and in this respect he is similar to Nick, which may suggest some of their kinship,

The interminable, labyrinth like wheat is a similar motif to the dreadful ashes of the Valley of Ashes, inescapable and torturous, The pastoral manifests itself incongruously in the urban setting of The Great Gatsby Gatsbys predecessor desired thatched cottages as his neighbours although this rural idyll was never realised.


Sensuality and the forbidden is diffused through the short

story and the Fathers wavering in faith is eroded by the vital, “girls with yellow hair” whose “shrill laughter” haunts him.
Both the Father and Gatsby dont desire abrasive, raw physicality, the “heat and the sweat and the light”, but rather abstract dreams that go “glimmering”,
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined.
He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers, Fitzgerald was of the self styled Lost Generation, Americans born in thes who came of age during World War I, He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age, He was married to sitelink Zelda Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined.
He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers, Fitzgerald was of the self styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in thes who came of age during World War I, He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age, He was married to sitelink Zelda Fitzgerald, sitelink.