Whenever a potential writer enters his first workshop, the golden rule is to write what you know, even when it comes to less-than-realistic texts like science fiction. There may not be human-like androids around, but writers can use their personal feelings of oppression and isolation to make the story flow and realistic. The realistic aspects of fiction are what make stories viable. This is true even when it comes to writers of the early 20th century; “Babylon Revisited” not only represents a national story with the fall from grace of the Jazz Age, but it is also the personal story of Fitzgerald's fall from Gatsby character to Charlie Wales. The 1920s were a time of Prohibition, illegal parties, and flapper culture. This era is marked as the Jazz Age, due to the large parties, the fluidity of jazz music, and the rapid cultural boom. As a Jazz Age writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald created Jay Gatsby as his symbol; "'Gatsby?' asked Daisy. 'What Gatsby?'” (Fitzgerald 11) was Fitzgerald's enigmatic symbol of the American dream, the symbol of a turbulent era and, above all, an allegory of the decadence that America found in that period. of time. “Gatsby embodies the mystery and allure of the future dream; without a doubt, the struggle to realize a high unrealized self-conception is one of the main American values…” (Wilson). in a society that declares that it is possible to climb the ladder of culture. He was also a tragic character, a figure marked by failure and overshadowed by death for a long time part of the novel, however, [he] achieves a form of... middle of paper.... ..g accepting the past as it is.Works Cited""Babylon Revisited" F. Scott Fitzgerald." Criticism of History by filming. vol. 31. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Gale. Network. 17 November 2013. Baym, Nina. "Babylon revisited". The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W. W. 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. Network. 17 November 2013. Van Der Crabben, January "Babylon". Encyclopedia of Ancient History. TSO Guest, April 28, 2011. Web. November 18, 2013.Will, Barbra. "'The Great Gatsby' and the Obscene Word." University Literature 32.4 (2005): 125-44. 2005. Network. November 18, 2013. Wilson, Robert N. “Fitzgerald as Icarus.” The Antioch Revision 17.4 (1957): 481-92. Network. November 18. 2013.