...Fitzgerald met a popular 18-year-old named Zelda Sayre at a country club dance in Montgomery, Alabama. Fitzgerald read her his stories and parts of his unfinished novel. He proposed after his discharge from the Army, but Zelda had doubts. Her fiancé wasn't rich and there was no guarantee he'd ever be famous. Hoping to fix the "no money" part of his problem, Fitzgerald took a job in New York as an advertising writer. His short stories didn't sell. His apartment was a dump. Zelda gave back the ring. He then moved back to St. Paul, to his parents' house, to be able to rewrite the novel and win back his girl. Fitzgerald wrote a novel about a devastatingly handsome, wildly talented young Princeton student named Amory Blaine who quits school,...
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...The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a definite page-turner due to Fitzgerald’s passion, and emotion that he has captured. The novel was published on April 10, 1925; however, did not sell many copies until his death. Before his death he was believed to be a failure, but is now considered one of the best American writers of the 20th century. The story takes place in New York City and on Long Island. More specifically, the West and East Egg during the roaring 20’s. Fitzgerald reflects on his own life making The Great Gatsby more of a personal narrative. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life has influenced his writing on the novel The Great Gatsby....
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...In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway joins Jay Gatsby through a trail of lies, love, and deception. Jay Gatsby lives perfectly across the bay from Daisy Buchanan with the green light at the end of her dock leaving a reminder. In the book, Fitzgerald portrays Jay and Daisy’s relationship to be like Zelda and himselfs relationship. While showing the progression through the 1920s of wealth, it shows the differences in the social classes and how they looked at each other. The Great Gatsby shows symbolic messages throughout the reading such as Fitzgeralds past, the use of colors, and the American dream. Nick views himself as underclass, being surrounded by the rich, but that he will rise in his bond business. He becomes fascinated by his neighbor Mr. Gatsby mysteriousness and how he is so widespread known. At Tom and Daisy’s under their high living is love and despair. Tom likes living high but also having the power to broadcast his public affair. Tom’s lover Myrtle lives in the Valley of Ash, representing a much lower class. He shows Myrtle off in New York city to show how much power and authority...
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...to The Great Gatsby During the Jazz Age in 1925, The Great Gatsby was written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. It was a novel that served as a portrait of the frenzied post- WWI society. It was a novel noted for its remarkable way in which the author captured a cross section of American society. Reflecting mostly on the way Fitzgerald lived, the characters in Gatsby live in a time of corruption. Tom Buchanan’s infidelity, Nick Caraway’s fascination with the lifestyle of wealth, and Jay Gatsby’s idealism of riches are all a reflection of the lifestyle that the author, F. S. F. and his wife Zelda led in the roaring 20’s. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda had had marital problems as well as Tom and Daisy Buchanan did. Like Tom, Fitzgerald had a mistress. Tom insisted that he “[wanted Nick] to meet [his] girl,” he did not care about how uncomfortable it would make Nick to meet the woman he was fooling around with (p 28). Tom and Daisy moved around multiple times similarly to Fitzgerald and his wife. Both couples lived in Chicago, but an incident caused the Buchanans to move up Northeast to New York. “They were careless people Tom and Daisy” just like Zelda and Scott, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and left other people to clean up the mess they had made.” (p 179) Always running from their problems, Tom and Daisy did not like facing the music. Along with Scott and Zelda, Tom and...
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...Fitzgerald’s Bio When they met again, two days later, it was Gatsby who was breathless, who was, somehow, betrayed. Her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star-shine; the wicker of the settee squeaked fashionably as she turned toward him and he kissed her curious and lovely mouth. She had caught a cold, and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever, and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.--Ch. 8 Fitzgerald's own tempestuous relationship with his wife Zelda would be reflected in his many short stories and novels, first serialised in such literary journals as Scribner'sand the Saturday Evening Post. Their lives are a classic study of the American Dream in all its highs, lows, excesses, and joys. Highly lauded as a writer, Fitzgerald was often mired in debt because of his and Zelda's lavish lifestyle, living beyond their means.The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald's characters Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Myrtle, Jay Gatsby, and Nick Carraway epitomise the Jazz Age but is has also remained timeless in its examination of man's obsessions with and need for money, power, knowledge, and hope. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (named after Francis Scott Key, author of the United States' national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner") was born into an upper-middle class family on 24 September 1896 in St...
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...fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error” (Florence King). This quote brings to light the fact that the American Dream is nigh impossible to achieve. This is simply because people are so caught up in dreaming about what other people have obtained rather than taking the necessary steps to live the dream themselves. American author F. Scott Fitzgerald has an unparalleled impact on the idea of the American Dream. Fitzgerald’s novels This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby have consistent themes that feature small aspects of the American Dream that conflicts him. Both the main male characters, Armory Blaine and Jay Gatsby showcase men in 1920s America who have come into wealth, yet their money and shiny trinkets do not bring them happiness, even though that is what both characters legitimately yearned for. Together, Gatsby and Blaine expose a perception of the American Dream that F. Scott Fitzgerald investigated thoroughly throughout his life. The idea that when a society is consumed by materialism and the promises it could bring the real American Dream is lost in the shuffle. Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1869 in St. Paul, Minnesota. The author was named after his second cousin Scott Francis Key, who wrote the lyrics to the “Star-Spangled Banner”. As a young boy he went to two Catholic schools the most prestigious of the two being the Newman school where he graduated high...
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...The great effection of Freud’s psychoanalytic on literature is beyond doubt, though it was unpopular when he first proposed this theory.Still psychoanalytic had created a significant impact on American literature,especially on Fitzgerald’s works.Fitzgetald has already became a symbol of the Jazz Age, his honor and disgrace of life are extremly similar with Nick and Gatsby’s in the novel, but there is a lot differences after perusing. Personaly, Frued’s theory of Personality Structure is the key clue of main roles’ birth. Id, ego and superego these three personalities exist in the relationship between Gatsby and Fizgerald all the time. According to Frued’s concepts,id, ego and superego these three co-operate to make each of them can operate nomally,none acts independently. In the other word, the person who own the personalities will be dissatisfied when the relationships among the three parts have any contradiction. First, id——as the lowest level, which is isolated from the basic desires of all human kinds, meanwhile, id is out of constrains by social customs,logical and rational. The ego, which is usually contradictory. In the Creative Writers and Day-dreaming Fruede pointed out that there is two kinds of authors, one is kind of Epic writer, every work is based on real history; another one is who always tried to creative their own stories. Obviously, Fitzgerald belongs to the later one. The conflicting thoughts of Fitzgerald’s embodies on The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald had...
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...The Great Gatsby: Summary: Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg, Long Island, a wealthy area populated by the new rich, people who made their fortunes due to the economic upswing of the Roaring Twenties. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a huge mansion and throws extravagant parties on the weekends. Nick is unlike the other inhabitants of West Egg—he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island and the home of the upper class. Nick drives out to East Egg one evening to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a former classmate of Nick during his time at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship. Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom’s marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a random, vulgar party in the apartment that Tom bought because of his affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose. As the summer progresses, Nick eventually gets an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters...
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...time: The Great Gatsby * "What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked back—but said at the end of The Great Gatsby: 'I've found my line—from now on this comes first.'" * F. Scott Fitzgerald (http://www.biography.com/people/f-scott-fitzgerald-9296261?page=1) * Mother: Mary McQuillan was from an Irish-Catholic family that had made a small fortune in Minnesota as wholesale grocers. * Father: Edward Fitzgerald, had opened a wicker furniture business in St. Paul, and, when it failed, he took a job as a salesman for Procter & Gamble that took his family back and forth between Buffalo and Syracuse in upstate New York during the first decade of Fitzgerald's life. However, Edward Fitzgerald lost his job with Procter & Gamble in 1908, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was 12, and the family moved back to St. Paul to live off of his mother's inheritance. * When he was 13 years old, he published his first story and the school news paper on St. Paul Academy * After graduating from the Newman School in 1913, Fitzgerald decided to stay in New Jersey to continue his artistic development at Princeton University. * Then he attended to Princeton he wrote musicals and he also published “Pieces” and the “Princeton Tiger” humor Magazine * Because of his devotion of writing and college his academic suffered and had to leave for 3 years and join the army * He met his wife (Zelda SayreDaughter...
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...was the most importance. As a result all the attitudes and manners that were established in Fitzgerald’s character came from his father and all the concerns of stability in the society came from his mother. Between the years of 1898-1901 and 1903- 1908 he lived in Buffalo, New York. And this is when he attended Nardin Academy. However when his father was fired from his job, his family had to move back to Minnesota, where he now went to school at St. Paul Academy in St. Paul. He went to school there for three years. Although the reason for the family to go back to Minnesota was not a happy one, its effect was good, because around this time Fitzgerald created his first piece of literature at his school at the age of thirteen. After that great event he left St. Paul to go to a...
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...He was given three names after the writer of The Star Spangled Banner, to whom he was distantly related. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s exquisite, writing style was mainly influenced by Father Sigourney Fay. Princeton University, Zelda Sayre. School played a very important role in his life, Fitzgerald failed at sports but was a excellent daydreamer. During 1911-1913 he attended Newman School, A Catholic Prep School in New Jersey where he met father Sigourney Fay, who encourage his ambitious for personal distinction and achievement. (Bruccoli) Fitzgerald was excellent in school until he made it to college. As a member of the 1917 Princeton Class, Fitzgerald often neglected studies and often wrote scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club. While on academic probation and unlikely to graduate he joined the army in 1917. Convinced that he would die in war he rapidly wrote the novel, The Romatic Egotisc, it was rejected. (Broccoli) After that book was rejected, fitgerald did not give up he begin writing his first novel, This Side of Paradise. On April 3rd 1920, having just published his first novel This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre. This Side of Paradise became a istant success. But the apex of his career came with the Novel The Great Gatsby. (Anderson) Fitzgeral was uncommonly gifted as awriter. Not only was he apart of the crazy, wonderful era of the 1920’s he help name it the Jazz Age Era....
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...Although it is a work of fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is an accurate portrayal of the 1920s. It is generally realistic, despite some events and details being fabricated for entertainment purposes. The story was written shortly after the Roaring 20s. Because it was written so soon after the time period, readers are led to believe that the author experienced the time period first hand. If this is true, the author will know more information than that of someone writing a novel on the same time period almost one hundred years later. In history books, the 1920s, also known as the Roaring 20s, was a time period prior to the Great Depression where the majority of the population was prosperous and happy. (“The Roaring...
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...writing the Star-Spangled Banner, and his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, but most of his work explains the Jazz Age and at the time, the Jazz Age was considered an “Age of Miracles”. What we can conclude from this is that F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the greatest American writers and one of the most known writers of the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota....
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald Though there have been many great authors in history, F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most admirable for his works. During F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life, many things that were “in the air” influenced him. He lived through the roaring twenties, also known as the Jazz Age, and continued on his career into the Great Depression. On September 24th, 1896, Mary McQuillan gave birth to her child, Francis Scott Fitzgerald. He was born in the apartment that was rented by his parents. The man who fathered Fitzgerald was Edward Fitzgerald. Three months before Fitzgerald was born, his mother had lost her two daughters. F. Scott Fitzgerald began his school career at Miss Goodyear’s School in September of 1902. At Miss Goodyear’s School, Fitzgerald had become a very avid reader. Since F. Scott Fitzgerald’s father transferred jobs a lot, he attended many schools during his childhood. When his father transferred to Buffalo, New York, Fitzgerald went to Miss Narden’s school. During the time while he attended Miss Narden’s School, he got involved with the Catholic Church. The Fitzgeralds moved back to Minnesota after Edward Fitzgerald was fired, and F. Scott Fitzgerald began attending St. Paul’s School. While he was enrolled in St. Paul’s School, Fitzgerald wrote his first short stories. He was expelled from St. Paul’s School due to his grades, though, and soon after the Fitzgeralds got transferred to Hackensack, New Jersey, where F. Scott Fitzgerald was enrolled...
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... The Great Gatsby From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the novel. For the film, TV and opera adaptations, see The Great Gatsby (disambiguation). The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding theAmerican Dream.[1][2] Fitzgerald, inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore, began planning the novel in 1923 desiring to produce, in his words, "something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned."[3] Progress was slow with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was too vague and convinced the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald was ambivalent about the book's title, at various times wishing to re-title the novel Trimalchio in West Egg. First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received...
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