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    off Fitzgerald’s own personal life and struggles. Fitzgerald coming from a poor family, uneducated, is America’s most famous writers of all time.The Beautiful and Damned the characters slowly go downward as the book advances. An uneducated, unknown childhood life turned out to be one of the greatest writers, Fitzgerald’s books portrayed his own life emphasizing flaws in every aspect. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24,1986. Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul, Minnesota . His father was not

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    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

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    "Babylon Revisited" by F Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as the spokesman of the "Lost Generation" of Americans in the 1920s. The phrase, "Lost Generation," was coined by Gertrude Stein "to describe the young men who had served in World War I and were forced to grow up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" (Charters 489). Fitzgerald exemplified the generation that Stein defined. His family, with help from an aunt, put him through preparatory school and

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    nineteen-year-old brother. The girl’s name was Annabelle and her brother’s F. Scott Fitzgerald. In Fitzgerald’s eyes Annabel was a bit socially inept, and his opening words to her were merciless, “You are as you know, not a good conversationalist and you might very naturally ask, ‘What do boys like to talk about?’ Boys like to talk about themselves—much more than girls...” (Fitzgerald qtd in “F. Scott Fitzgerald” 289) Fitzgerald then continued on with possible opening lines: “How about giving me that sporty

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    Scott Key Fitzgerald’s life Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald lifestyle affected how his books began and how they ended. Erika Willett says in his biography on Fitzgerald that “F.Scott Key Fitzgerald 's life is a tragic example of both sides of the American Dream. Fitzgerald had the joys of young love like what he had with Zelda, wealth and success with the writing of his books, and the tragedies associated with excess and failure of being in debt.” Fitzgerald life was never very settled. He was either

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    2.1. Fitzgerald and His Relation to the Dream F. Scott Fitzgerald was part of a generation who were born at the turn of the century. He was born in 1896, and right from his childhood he had mixed feelings about American life and identity (Mangum 4). The contradictory beliefs and ideas also influenced his writings, “his fiction was born of this tug-of-war between these opposed impulses: the hedonistic and the ascetic, the desire to soak up experience to the limit and even beyond and the need to be

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    The Great Gatsby Report

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    Scott was born on September 24, 1896 in St.Paul Minnesota. He lived many places. He was born St.Paul Minnesota, then once his dad’s wicker furniture business failed he had to take a job that took the the family to Buffalo and Syracuse. However, at the age of twelve, he moved back to St.Paul to live of his mother’s trust fund and attended St.Paul academy. He published his first work at age thirteen. It was a short detective story that was published in his school’s newspaper. He was an ambitious child

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    translation. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is known worldwide and it is one of the most well-known and admired eastern poetry in the Western World. It is the work of a Persian poet Omari Khayyam that was translated into English language in 1859 by Edward FitzGerald and ultimately won worldwide acclaim. However, the poetry of Umar Khayyam is considered an enigma, meaning that his poems are understood differently by different individuals. There is, thus, a debate that Edward FitzGelrald, the first translator

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    Essay on The Great Gatsby Research Report

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    I. Introduction In 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. After growing up in Minnesota he moved to start a career and marry Zelda, the girl he loved. He published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920; the novel was a success and Fitzgerald quickly became one of the most famous young writers of the time. “F. Scott Fitzgerald eagerly embraced his newly minted celebrity status and embarked on an extravagant lifestyle that earned him a reputation as a playboy and

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    never brought up in this book it is inferred very frequently, and they definitely infer a lot of cheating. Tom Buchanan cheats on Daisy shortly after their honey moon, and always seems to be pursuing women at Gatsby’s parties. Tom even has a mistress (Myrtle Wilson) who you could say is the main person he cheats on Daisy with, not to mention this mistress is also married to a clueless man who has no idea that his wife is in love with another man. Than on the

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