Overall Fitzgerald doesn’t give a lot of importance to having organised stories, as a reader we quickly lose the notion of time. He often combines flashbacks and present events which makes the readers lose the notion of time. He often uses an unreliable narrator which often makes the course of the story confusing. Another factor that adds to the readers losing the course of his novels is that he allows his characters to take control of the story. During these periods we are completely absorbed by the character’s life.
This is one of my favorite paintings, from Dali. It illustrates well the effect of «timeless» that Fitzgerald gives to his novels.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald 