But Edmund Wilson, the critic, had much to do with the restoration of his reputation and brought out The Last Tycoon, a novel about Hollywood that FSF had left unfinished, with a laudatory introduction. Sales of Gatsby went up to 300,000. 2-volume biography, The Far Side of Paradise , FSF s ascending reputation skyrocketed. Now it is assured as is the place of Gatsby. The style of the novel is as much a part of its structure as of its tone.
Syntax is a method of formulation.
Diction is a mode of meaning. At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor. That was the shaping force of the novel. It must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting and to the magic suggestiveness of music which is the art of arts. FORM Adds to the style with the progression of scenes.