The Great Gatsby is an Important Literary Work“Every man's memory is his private literature,” said Aldous Huxley, a well-known author. “The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation because among the seemingly less exceptional people, all lives trace a history. Some contain more characters than can easily be tracked down, others follow plot lines that can only be described as convoluted. Some are full of descriptions where nothing seems to happen unless you are patient enough to read between the lines. ("brainyquotes"). I'm not sure writers can create anything important without the work being biased and distorted by some person, place, or thing from their past. Memory often coincides with motivation, even if it is the memory of something heard, seen or read. “Private literature” is never completely private. Almost everything we experienced was a shared event, even the once-forgotten moments that play out clearly and startlingly in our minds. I know that in my collection of "private literature" memories there are some extraordinarily painful stories waiting to be told. And, in some cases, the stories will never become visible. They come from shared libraries and cannot be borrowed without special permission. Like an ancient document, some moments are too delicate to touch. Better to leave them on a high shelf, acknowledged and undisturbed. Books are like authors' diaries; they simply change names and small details so it doesn't seem like they're talking about themselves. If you read enough by the same author you may learn a lot about him just from what you read. This can certainly be said of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his work, The Great Gatsby. Before we can discuss... middle of the paper... the poor, because all they will do is have more children and always stay poor. Fitzgerald drags the reader through the numbing environment in which the narrator characterizes his characters. This quote says that in their society while the poor have children, the rich simply become richer and higher in society. This is an example of what Gatsby is like. He's a rich person, getting richer and richer. Works Cited Fitzgerald, Francis. The Great Gatsby. 1st ed. 1 vol. Long Islands, New York: Scribner, 1925. 180. Print."The Great Gatsby." SparkNote. SparkNotes LLC, 2011. Web. March 22, 2011. "F. Scott Fitzgerald." Wikipedia The free encyclopedia. WikimediaFoundation, Inc., March 22. Web. March 22 2011..