The Last Tycoon Analysis

In the beginning, readers see Fitzgerald's first works as more naive, and were meant to be published in magazines for mass circulation, but they ever reached the middle class of America. Eventually he figured out how to create his stories so that they became hits, and they still resonated the themes he wanted (Bryant 1372). In his last, and unfinished, story “The Last Tycoon,” readers can see a constant moon imagery. Piacentino says that the moon imagery “serve to highlight the illusive quality of Hollywood and the motion picture industry generally and that of Monroe Stahr particularly, the latter a major influence on the Hollywood dream world". The moon is meant to emphasize “magic, fantasy and the mystique of Stahr’s dreams.” ( Piacentino