Should The Great Gatsby Be Banned?

The book was titled, The Great Gatsby. While he was working hard on the book, Zelda ended up having an affair and when Fitzgerald found out, some sort of sadness set in him. When the book was finally published and it was not as successful as he anticipated. When the stock market crashed and the jazz age came to a close, Zelda began to slowly lose her mind. She became so irrational that she grabbed the wheel while Fitzgerald was driving and nearly drove them off a cliff. The doctors then pronounced her schizophrenic and she went to a hospital in North Carolina. Fitzgerald ended up drinking gin all day and alcoholism began to set in and corrupt his health. He ended up suffering from a massive heart attack and died instantly at the age of 44 on December 21, 1940.

A villain is also called the antagonist—defined as one who contends with or opposes another in a fight, conflict, or battle of wills. The true villains held within the pages between the two covers of The Great Gatsby could be classified as anyone and everyone. I believe the three main ones throughout the story, though, are Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan; they’ve hurt so many people. Some on purpose, some unconsciously were hurt. Jay Gatsby could be known as the most villainous, but to himself.

The Great Gatsby is a book that should not be required, but also shouldn’t banned. High school students are old enough to have a better understanding of the book’s message. In the book, Nick Carraway said, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” (Fitzgerald 179). This quote is important because it shows how affairs can cause trouble. High school students also would have more knowledge on affairs due to health classes being a curriculum as freshmen students. Banning books can take away from a

When writing this book, Fitzgerald uses his own surroundings and even attacks the idea of love throughout the novel. Fitzgerald is similar to Gatsby and it is evident, because of how they both are hopeless romantics. He was in a relationship with a woman named Zelda and deeply loves her. They both live normal lives and even, “led wild lives filled with parties and intrigue. [However] The drama in their lives ended badly: Fitzgerald became an alcoholic and suffered mental collapses, while Zelda

Scott Fitzgerald born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. It’s safe to say writing runs in Fitzgerald’s family because his cousin Francis Scott Key wrote the “Star-Spangled banner”. Fitzgerald spent most of his young childhood moving around New York due to his father’s work, in 1908, the family moved back to St. Paul and lived off his mother’s inheritance. When Fitzgerald was fifteen years old his parents sent him to a respected catholic school, this is where he met Father Sigourney Fay, who quickly noted that he had a great talent for writing and encouraged him to continue writing. Upon graduating Catholic School Fitzgerald continued to write at The University of Princeton. He wrote musicals for the school and even had a section in the Princeton Tiger humor magazine and stories for the Nassau Literary Magazine, this kept him away from his school work which led to academic probation. In 1917 Fitzgerald decided to join the U.S. Army this was around the time of World War 1, before being sent off to the camp he wrote a novel “The Romantic Egotist” his novel was rejected by Charles Scribner’s Sons, the critic noted its originality and heartened Fitzgerald to continue writing. Fitzgerald was sent to Alabama and quickly promoted to second lieutenant. It was at Camp Sheridan where Fitzgerald fell in love with Zelda Sayre Daughter of a respected Supreme Court judge. The war concluded in 1918 before Fitzgerald was ever deployed. After being discharged he moved to New York

The book The Great Gatsby was challenged in 1987 by the Baptist College in Charleston(Wikipedia). The Great Gatsby was never formally ban, but it was challenged because of its, “Language and Sexual reference”(Study.com Has it been banned). Some of the themes that lead to The Great Gatsby getting challenged was because of it language and sexual reference. Another theme in the book is hope, for example in the beginning of the book when Gatsby has hope that him and Daisy will be together.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, otherwise known as F. Scott Fitzgerald came into this world on September 24, 1896. ** Named after his cousin that wrote the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Key Scott, F. Scott Fitzgerald began writing at the young age of 15.** During this time, Fitzgerald left school and joined the US Army. While being stationed outside of Montgomery, Alabama, he met the love of his life, Zelda Sayre. As life proceeded, he became known as a playboy. IN 1924, Fitzgerald moved to France and published the well-known novel, The Great Gatsby. Within the novel, Fitzgerald critiques the American Dream. ** The Great Gatsby also achieved the stature of being a definitive portrait of the “Roaring Twenties”**.

It is a well-known fact that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most notorious novel is The Great Gatsby. The novel was published in 1925, following Fitzgerald’s considerable success from his previous novel, The Beautiful and Damned. However, upon the novel’s publication Fitzgerald received negative feedback from the readers. It is supposed that the lack of positive reaction is due to the absence of a female protagonist in both the novel and the film adaptations. Among the many film adaptations of the novel, the three most common are the movies produced in: 1949, 1974, and 2013.

Another difference between Fitzgerald and Hemingway’s novels is their inclusion of women and their relationships in reference to the men and war. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby and Daisy begin to develop their lives around one another prior to him being deployed. The pair is “‘getting deeper in love every minute,’” which causes Gatsby to push to gain Daisy so they can build their relationship no matter his personal goals, as he explains, “‘What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?’” (Fitzgerald 150). The short lived time that the two spent together caused Gatsby to proclaim that they were on the verge of marriage, which changed drastically when he was sent to fight in the war. All of his hopes and dreams of building a life together with Daisy had to be put on hold while he fought. Believing that after returning home from his deployment he would be able to return to his previous life, Gatsby turns his focus from earning money, enticing Daisy, and gaining status in society to advancing his ranks in the army. Daisy on the other hand, moves on from Gatsby because she desires her “life shaped now” when he leaves because she is not immediately affected by the

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in a family of a failed business man which caused many moves between Buffalo and Syracuse. (Brucker) After the loss of his father’s job, they were left to move back to St. Paul, Minnesota and live from his mother’s inheritance. (bio.com) F Scott Fitzgerald grew as a very intellectual young boy who published a detective story in his school’s newspaper as a teenager. (bio.com) He was encouraged by his parents, along with educators to continue pursuing a writing career. His dedication of writing soon harmed him when he was put on academic probation as his school work was put aside. He then decided to enroll in the military despite his fears of dying without living his dreams. Upon being commissioned Fitzgerald met a crazed young woman named Zelda, who represents the basis of the desires of the world. Her greed of wealth, fun, and extravagance soon took a toll upon F. Scott. He became lazy with his writing and instead of devoting himself to novels, he quickly put

Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota, then moved to upstate New York living in Buffalo and Syracuse, his parents sent him to a Catholic school in New Jersey, where he eventually went to Princeton University, went to World War I in Alabama, and after winning over the love of his life they moved to New York so he could begin his writing career. In The Great Gatsby there were two main settings, East Egg and West Egg. Gatsby and Nick Carraway lived on the West Side, “I lived at West Egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two” (5). While across the bay Daisy and her husband Tom lived in East Egg. “Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water” (5). Fitzgerald’s life mostly took place in New York where he married and began a career. They did not live in the city but once he got more money from writing his novels they moved to have a fun

Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (more commonly known as F. Scott Fitzgerald) became widely known as one of the greatest American authors. Fitzgerald wrote both novels and short stories, mainly set in the Jazz age. Many influences to his writing came from his own personal life and the world he saw around him. His wife, Zelda, was one of the major influences seen within many of his works. Fitzgerald encompasses many of these things in his books The Great Gatsby and Tender is the night. Letting his own life experiences and insight guide his writing, Fitzgerald explores the effect of social hierarchy on society amidst the Roaring Twenties through his use of evocative, colorful imagery and eloquent use of underlying tone.

There are different types of experiences that Fitzgerald had throughout his life. Some experiences could be happy, exciting or some could be sad, disturbing. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, MN (“F (rancis)”). He died on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, CA (“F (rancis)”). Fitzgerald’s father’s name was Edward Fitzgerald, and his mother’s name was Mary (Mollie) McQuillan (Matthew). When Fitzgerald was a child, he did not get the chance to make childhood friends because his parents moved different places before he started his school. “Fitzgerald attended the Newman school in Hackensack, New Jersey and while he was in school; he continued to write for school publication” (“F (rancis)”). After he graduated high school, he attended Princeton University class of

him. So on the third of April of 1920 in St. Patrick's Cathedral New York City

Although Ginevra King was Fitzgerald¡¦s first true love, she certainly was not his last. In July 1918, while stationed in Montgomery, Alabama with the military, Scott met a gracious, soft-voiced girl named Zelda Sayre at a country club dance. Scott recalled that night that, ¡§she let her long hair hang down loose and wore a frilly dress that made her look younger than eighteen. She came from a prominent though not wealthy family and had just graduated