Fitzgerald’s Social Discourse: The Great Gatsby. The New Studies of English Language & Literature 51 (2012): 45-64. This paper aims to study the social discourse of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, which is interwoven by his literary techniques. His career as a social novelist can not be dissociated from the Jazz age and its social circumstances, which he describes in his best novel, The Great Gatsby. The novel shows his creative effort, which is based on his own stylistic experiments distinguished from European novels, and also on American idealism linked with the distinctive experience of American history. In particular, Fitzgerald, employing Nick Carraway as a narrator of omniscient point of view and character interlaced with the events and other characters, produces subtle ironies and interesting satirical effects. Nick recreates the situations, taking part in all their actualities in the novel, and at the same time comments upon them. While criticizing American materialism, Fitzgerald seems only to suggest that American idealism essentially has the same root as the shallow materialism of America, rather than the object to overcome the flaws inherent in it. However, Fitzgerald is successful in achieving the artistic complexity of meaning and techniques, which is modernist feature. (Daeshin University)