The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald is the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's wife, but she is also an American novelist. She was born in Montgomery, Alabama and was considered a “Southern belle”. She had the means and the desire to become a ballet dancer, but she was too

The general topic of this essay is how Fitzgerald’s biographical products and the social context of America in 1920- 1930’s influenced his literature texts, during the post World War One, Jazz age period? Reading Fitzgerald’s novels and his life stories made me realize how similar it is. This essay is an analysis of the similarities between Fitzgerald’s biography and his novels. Also how social context of America in the Jazz age period played a part in his stories. This essay will include comparisons of Fitzgerald and Zelda’s love life and personalities to the personalities and love life of the characters in his novels. How themes of his novels include feminism, racism, The American Dream, socio-economic division relates to

Thesis Statement: Perhaps Fitzgerald was not ‘‘the inevitable male companion,” she would choose out of the entire world, she writes in a long letter to Oppenheimer and Guinzburg, but he “was moderately sober and pretty d*** nice.” Besides she couldn’t help herself but to feel sorry for him with Zelda having been institutionalized since January.

Colors can invoke feelings for people. Certain colors are attached to moods. Red can represent anger, green sometimes represents envy and blue can represent calm or even melancholy. Much art, music, and literature is dependent on color to convey the intended mood of the artist. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, a man with wealth, power, and possessions is on a quest for the dream that he will never attain. He cannot have all that he already has plus the true love of Daisy. Fitzgerald creates his own unique motifs surrounding certain colors and uses these colors to emphasize the futility in Gatsby’s quest for this dream. Through the use

F. Scott Fitzgerald, a St. Paul, Minnesota native, was born on September 24, 1896. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, had co-written a novel in his youth and often read works by Edgar Allen Poe and Lord George Gordon Byron to Scott during his childhood. While Fitzgerald’s father praised his literary attempts, both of his parents encouraged him to pursue other career paths. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald was steadfast in his literary endeavors, writing for both his high school and college newspapers. He later dropped out of Princeton University in order to join the army and continued to pursue writing, penning both magazine articles and musical lyrics (Adams 10-11).

On Wednesday February 12 of 1890 F. Scott Fitzgerald's parents were married in Washington D.C. Six years later on September 24, 1896 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born at his home 481 Laurel Ave. in St. Paul, Minnesota. His two infant older sisters had died from a violent influenza so that by the time Fitzgerald came along Mollie Fitzgerald had become the proverbial nightmare that known as an overprotective mother. Fitzgerald's mother was no traditional mother though, for she was known for her eccentricities. These eccentricities disturbed young Scott's life, "Fitzgerald later described his mother as 'half insane with pathological nervous worry'" (Bruccoli 15),

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald’s names are synonymous with the Jazz Ag. To simply hear their names is to invoke words such as carefree, recklessness, fashion, wealth and glamour; the couple did everything in excess. However living an extravagant lifestyle is not the only thing the couple are known for. F. Scott Fitzgerald is perhaps one of the most beloved writers of the 20th century. Although Zelda was mostly known as F. Scott’s mentally ill wife, she too was a talented writer; her literary works have become more than just a curiosity and she is becoming known as a great writer in her own right. Both writers incorporated their personal lives into their writing, so much so that it is sometimes hard to tease out fact from fiction.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, colors represent a variety of symbols that relate back to the American Dream. The dream of being pure, innocent and perfect is frequently associated with the reality of corruption, violence, and affairs. Gatsby’s desire for achieving the American Dream is sought for through corruption (Schneider). The American Dream in the 1920s was perceived as a desire of wealth and social standings. Social class is represented through the East Egg, the West Egg, and the Valley of the Ashes. The two eggs show how the characters have obtained their wealth, what they value, and how they live their lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald models the character of Jay Gatsby after himself and financial and romantic experiences in his personal life. The Great Gatsby summarizes the yearning for the American dream in the 1920s, through the wealth of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s characters and through the imagery of colors.

The Jazz Age was a period of great economic, social, and political change happening in the 1920’s. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, however, sees in this a time of boundaryless death, and urban decimation. The Great Gatsby is modeled towards the death of the American dream during the 1920’s. Based on the happening of the 1920’s, this model is certainly reasonable. F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby use the motifs of materialism, carelessness, and decay seen in the 1920’s in order to show a decimation of the American Dream, and the human race.

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

There are so many similarities in Fitzgerald’s actual life and in several of his writings. Using his own life helped make the genuineness of his characters seem so real. As Kenneth Eble, author of a biography on F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, ‘Their sameness explains itself there; the variations are explained in Fitzgerald’s remark:’ “There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He’s too many people if

F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for writing multiple well known novels, and short stories. He was born on September 24, 1896 and died from a heart attack on December 21, 1940 at the age of 44. After Fitzgerald started The Great Gatsby he became a heavy drinker and suffered from writers block. He was not finished with The Great Gatsby before he died and it ended up being one of his number one novels during the 1950- 1960?s. Fitzgerald was a smart and ambitious, he attended St. Paul Academy in Minnesota, when he was 15 he was sent to a Catholic school in New Jersey where he pursued his dreams and crafts of writing. His first break-through novel was

Even though his first novel was a complete hit it actually took him a while for him to get the novel accepted. The original title of The Side of Paradise was “The Romantic Egoist.” The first time he submitted it to Charles Scribner’s Son and they rejected the novel. So, Fitzgerald made rewrote his novel and resubmitted and got rejected again. Finally, after rewriting the novel for the third time and changing the title name, the novel was finally accepted and it was published. With the success of the novel, he got to marry Zelda. Like any of his novels, most of his characters come from his own life. In in this novel, the main character is from the Midwest, served in the army, attended Princeton, and had two failed romance with two rich girls just like Fitzgerald.

Scott Fitzgerald’s life. In Fitzgerald’s novel, “bad text significantly affected abook's initial reception and an author's subsequent reputation” (West 45). As Fitzgerald’s first novel was published when he was 23, he was still a young man and could not foresee his future. Amory’s life is similar to that of Fitzgerald’s future, though Fitzgerald was not aware of his upcoming, self-destructing actions. Amory’s storyline represents his “cyclical pattern of success/failure/comeback that characterized much of his later life”. Amory Blaine also follows a cycle of successes and failures as he tries to find love throughout his college life and after fighting in the military. During Fitzgerald’s time, “Early in July 1919 Fitzgerald returned from New York to his parents’ home in St. Paul. His spirits were low: he had failed at business and at writing, and his relationship with Zelda had ended—apparently forever,” having no hope left. Fitzgerald dreamed of becoming a successful writer, but his books were not recognized till much later after his death. Zelda, his wife, had left Fitzgerald just as Rosalind left Amory in the novel, and both Fitzgerald and Amory are left contemplating the decisions they made in

In July 1918, while he was stationed near Montgomery, Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. They fell deeply in love, and, as soon as he could, Fitzgerald headed for New York determined to achieve instant success and to marry Zelda. In 1920, their marriage was held and spent most of his life with Zelda in New York. Zelda was a wild child, who smoked, drank alcohol, and snuck out of her parents’ house to spend time with boys when she was in high school. Her friends described her as fearless, daring, and attention-seeking. Their marriage was incredibly tumultuous. It was reportedly a toxic marriage, complete with alcoholism, mutual infidelity, and jealousy. . In 1924, Fitzgerald got a flight to France and joined ‘The Lost Generation’. Then, in 1934, he published ‘Tender is the Night’, which described this society. In 1930, Zelda suffered her first nervous breakdown and moved to various clinics in Switzerland. Fitzgerald published the short story ‘One Trip Abroad,’ about an American couple who fall apart in Europe. Then he met Ernest Hemingway and had a rocky friendship with him. However, Zelda was over-jealous and accused her husband of having a gay relationship with his friend and fellow writer Ernest Hemingway. And in the end, he died of a heart attack while writing his last novel, ‘The Last Tycoon.’