F. Scott Fitzgerald was exceptionally equivocal about the American dream. He saw it as intriguing and brilliant but at the same time dangerous and complex. His thoughts and works express his vast and adventurous imagination. Fitzgerald lived a life of disappointment and depression. His novels are representations of his life and struggles. He had many marital problems and eventually divorced, which led him into the pit of alcoholism. His books reveal his emotions and therefore rarely have a happy ending. Both the books I selected revolve around the struggle of love. The Great Gatsby is about the struggle for love and Tender is The Night is about the struggle to maintain love. These themes are directly linked to his life problems. These experiences that F. Scott Fitzgerald had translated into his work and so the reader notices common themes throughout his stories. F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates continuity between the themes of classifying people, money, love, and idealism in his novels. In his books, Fitzgerald groups people into two distinct classifications to represent social stratification, which establishes a barrier between them. Fitzgerald does this to express the prevailing distinction between different types of people and what they are like. Fitzgerald creates a discrepancy to represent exclusivity in society. A. “I lived in West Egg, the… well, the less hip of the two… Across Courthouse Bay, the white buildings of elegant East Egg glittered along the water.” (The Great Gatsby 5). This separation distinguishes the Buchanans from others like Gatsby. This idea of ​​wealth and where you are divides the two types of people geographically and socially. The West... in the center of the map... has more secure wealth. Fitzgerald portrays his theme through Gatsby's fall to his destruction. “His eyes were bright, large, clear, moist and shining, the color of his cheeks was real, rising to the surface from the strong, youthful pump of his heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last border of childhood: she was almost eighteen, she was almost complete, but she was still wet. (Tender is night 3). This quote is very important to the book because it describes Dick Diver's point of view. Dick marries his psychology patient primarily because of her youth and wealth. He marries the young Nicole and practically becomes her father and lover. Later in the story he meets Rosemary who is a very young girl and Dick seems to be very infatuated with her. Fitzgerald is telling the reader that no matter what; a material thing cannot cause true love.