Abstract

That F. Scott Fitzgerald was an ironist, simultaneously engaged in and detached from his subject, has become a critical commonplace. What remains to be pointed out is his use of a particular type of imagery to create his complex effects. In The Great Gatsby, his best finished work, there is evidence of an image-pattern apparently calculated to form in the reader an ironic double vision of the book's

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