Beating back bluntly into the books

These are the endings of The Road and The Great Gatsby written by the opposite author.
Gatsby by McCarthy:
We will keep trying. We will keep failing.

The Road by Fitzgerald:
In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and hummed of a mystery that was lost forever in the passing of time.

I think McCarthy would cut a lot out of Fitzgerald's last sentence. I do not hink Fitzgerald would change much of McCarthy's last sentence, which did not represent McCarthy's main style throughout the majority of the book. Since McCarthy's last sentence is not blunt and is actually rather vague, I think Fitzgerald would keep it more or less the same. McCarthy's ending uses the trout and imagery of nature to divulge the cause of the world crisis as environmental. Fitzgerald would like the descriptive language McCarthy uses to describe the trout that used to exist, and would not change much about the ending to The Road.