r waiter's ability to relate to the old man. Furthermore, this dialogue conveys the younger waiter's lack of empathy and understanding which allows one not only to grasp his psyche but also what sets him apart from the other two. "'You have youth, confidence, and a job,' the older waiter said. 'You have everything.' 'And what do you lack?' 'Everything but work.'" It is also from these lines that the reader discovers that the one thing preventing the older waiter from replicating the actions of the old man is the fact that he has a job. In "Indian Camp," everything is exposed to the reader through description and dialogue with the exception of the last paragraph which allows insight into the child's naivet concerning his own mortality. The discovery of the Indian father's death is an objective description and it is not until Nick talks with his father that it is confirmed a suicide and the true life and death theme of the story is fully realized.As mentioned before, the subject matter of both writers was influenced by the time in which they wrote despite obvious differences in subject. This is evident in the representation of the decadence of the 1920's which is thematically of great importance in The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby. Furthermore, one cannot overlook the presence of WWI in many of their works. One similarity consistent throughout Fitzgerald's above mentioned writings, "Babylon Revisited," "Winter Dreams," and The Great Gatsby, which sets him apart from Hemingway is that each one is about a man struggling to attain someone with whom he is enamored which in all three instances is female. Fitzgerald uses his trademark poetic style to romantically describe these objects of desire as from "Winter Dreams," "Her arms, burned to butternut, moved sinuously among the dull platinum ripples, elbow appearing first, casting the forearm back with a cadence of falling water" (1509-10). Descriptions such as this one are re...
