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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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    Center. Web. 8 Apr. 2015.) The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is well known for his book The Great Gatsby that was written in 1926. Fitzgerald had ways of achieving the American Dream, but fell short before the reward. He struggled in college which led him to the enlistment of WWI. Fitzgerald never went to combat and believes it to be one of his greatest regrets. AFter getting out of the war, he met the most beautiful “southern bell” named Zelda. Zelda came from a lot of money, which made her father

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    “Sometimes I don’t know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels.” Writers find inspiration wherever they can. Many, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, find inspiration in aspects of their own lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works were particularly influenced by the events that took place in his marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald; from the beginning of his marriage, through the hardships the couple faced, and towards the end of their short lives, his writings illustrate the journey

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    Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald, born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, is seen today as one of the true great American novelists. Although he lived a life filled with alcoholism, despair, and lost-love, he managed to create the ultimate love story and seemed to pinpoint the ¡§American Dream¡¨ in his classic novel, The Great Gatsby. In the novel, Jay Gatsby is the epitome of the ¡§self-made man,¡¨ in which he dictates his entire life to climbing the social ladder in order to gain wealth, to

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    Many people never pay attention or acknowledge what the wife of Scott Fitzgerald went through. They rather focus on the novels he wrote but do not give credit to the person who inspired his work. Zelda dealt with debt in her marriage, gave birth to her only child, discovered some talents on her own, and later in her life became ill. Zelda was born on July 24, 1900, in Montgomery, Alabama. She was the youngest of 6 children to the parents of Anthony and Minnie Sayre. Her parents raised her to be

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald is a well known author wrote multiple novels during the Jazz Age which reflected his life experiences. The Jazz Age was a period of time in America during the 1920’s where many Americans thought of new ideas and wore new styles. The Jazz Age began with World War 1 and ended with the Great Depression in 1929. (abebooks.com). Fitzgerald is best known for his novel The Great Gatsby which is about this time period. Many other novels written by Fitzgerald were also based on his own

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    and a time without war. F. Scott Fitzgerald is just one of the many writers during this time to write about such times. Fitzgerald, however, is an author that defined this era also known as the Jazz Age. Known for novels such as The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and the Damned, and many short stories, Fitzgerald is described by famousauthors.org as “one of the greatest writers American soil has produced in the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most influential

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    The Great Gatsby Summary

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    Sincerely, F Scott Fitzgerald is an arts documentary hosted by Jay McInerney, a really good re-telling of Fitzgerald's biography. McInerney explores the life and writing of Fitzgerald and did a great job on the overlap between Fitzgerald's life and the stories he wrote, with a special focus on the genesis of The Great Gatsby, which was considered as Fitzgerald’s greatest work, and its author's final years in Hollywood. Fitzgerald didn’t write any kind of autobiography. Instead, he left the literature

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    Great Gatsby Biography

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    biographical components in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. As an adult, Fitzgerald spent many nights at lavish parties with an abundance of alcohol. It is no surprise that this happens in his novel, which takes place in the 1920s. Fitzgerald also incorporates other aspects of his life, including; his relationships, his drive to be successful, and his schooling into the characters. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald puts himself and his own experiences in his novel to express the deep

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    Gatsby? After conducting a through investigation on the author of the Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald, one may say that the protagonist of this novel is a very clore representation of the author, himself. There are numerous and meaningful similarities between Jay Gatsby and Scott Fitzgerald's life, and all of them are far from being coincidence. Their similarities begin in their background. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby are from middle class families and had the opportunity to attend two of the

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