F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were two of the finest
writers of this
century and two of the most distinctively
American voices of 20th
century literature as well. The paper shows that although their styles were radically different, they both used their
fiction to depict their own experiences in often barely fictionalized form. They also used their fiction, and especially their short stories, to advance their philosophies. The paper shows that, ironically, although each attempted to create a voice and a fictional persona that was highly individual and unique, each came to be seen as the voice of a generation and so at least in some ways lost their individuality. The paper examines how the two writers blended life and fiction in their works.