Whenever a would-be writer walks into their first workshop, the golden rule is to write what you know, even when it comes to texts less than realistic like science fiction. There may not be human androids walking around, but the writers can use their personal feelings of oppression and isolation to make the story fluid and realistic. The realistic aspects of fiction are what make the stories accessible. This is even true when it comes to writers from the early 20th century; “Babylon Revisited” stands out not only as a national story with the fall from grace that was the Jazz Age, but it is also the personal story of Fitzgerald's fall from a Gatsby character to Charlie Wales . The 1920s were a time of prohibition and illegal parties. and flapper culture. This era is marked as the Jazz Age, due to the major festivals, the fluidity of jazz music and the rapid cultural growth. As a writer of this Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald created Jay Gatsby to be his symbol; "'Gatsby?' » asked Daisy. 'What is Gatsby?' » (Fitzgerald 11). Gatsby was the enigmatic symbol of the American dream according to Fitzgerald, the symbol of a noisy era and, above all, an allegory of the decadence that America experienced at that time. “Gatsby embodies the mystery and glamor of the future dream; Without doubt, the struggle to realize a high, unrealized conception of self is an important American value…” (Wilson). He was a metaphor for the struggle to become something in a society that declares it is possible to climb the cultural ladder. He was a symbol of what could be a self-made man. He was also a tragic character, "[he was], a figure marked by failure and shadowed by death for most of the novel, nevertheless, [he] reached a form of......mid paper... ..g because you accept the past as it is. Works Cited ""Babylon Revisited" F. Scott Fitzgerald." Review of the filming story. Flight. 31. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 1-38. Gale of wind. Internet. November 17, 2013.Baym, Nina. “Babylon revisited”. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: WW Norton, 2012. 675-89. Print.Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 2004. Print.Gross, Seymour L. Fitzgerald's “Babylon Revisited,” National Council of Teachers of English 25.2 (1963): 128-35. Jstor. Internet. November 17, 2013. .Van Der Crabben, January “Babylon”. Encyclopedia of ancient history. TSO Host, April 28, 2011. Web. November 18, 2013. Will, Barbra. "'The Great Gatsby' and the Obscene Word." Collegiate Literature 32.4 (2005): 125-44. 2005. Internet. November 18, 2013. Wilson, Robert N. “Fitzgerald as Icarus.” The Antioch Review 17.4 (1957): 481-92. Internet. November 18. 2013.