F. Scott Fitzgerald
With his full name being Francis Scott Fitzgerald, he is claimed to be one of the most widely and famously known writers for short stories and novels in US history. He was well known for his work during the Jazz Age when he released his first book, This Side of Paradise, in the 20’s. Although he was popular for his writing capabilities, Fitzgerald’s life had spiraled own to a deep depression that later on affect more than his career, but his life also.
Fitzgerald had began his life in St. Paul of Minnesota, he had a wealthy life with his mother. Even though Fitzgerald was living in wealth he also had family issues, his mother was an alcoholic. During the year of 1993, Fitzgerald got accepted into Princeton, and started
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friendships with Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. Once he started his friendships, he began to make lines for the plays being created by Triangle Club which was a theater production. He became so busy with writing, Fitzgerald withdrawn from Princeton with no degree. With him leaving Princeton, it helped him develop a theme for the novel he was writing, titled This Side of Paradise. History quotes, “After entering Princeton in 1913, he became a close friend of Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop and spent most of his time writing lyrics for Triangle Club theatrical productions and analyzing how to triumph over the school’s intricate social rituals. With his experience on creating plays for theaters, he has “wrote once that there are no second acts in American lives…” (The New Yorker.com). This can indicate how rough his life was, and also shows how hard he had to work to realize that everybody has to work hard to get that one chance, which describes the American Dream. He left Princeton without graduating and used it as the setting for his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920).” (History.com). Later on after his success with This Side of Paradise, things have began to change. He became more popular as he was considered a wonderful representative of the 1920’s. Fitzgerald even married a woman named Zelda Sayre a week after publishing This Side of Paradise. He became quite confident when objectives were going his way, he began drinking which possibly lead to his failure on the second novel that he published 1922, titled The Beautiful and The Damned. Fitzgerald was saved from his flaw when he publishes The Great Gatsby, which is about a thug’s occupation of a hard-to-get wealthy woman. After his success of becoming a great novel writer and getting married, his life began crashing down when he began his drinking problem in the late 20’s.
Biography quotes, “One week later, he married the woman he loved and his muse, Zelda Sayre. However by the end of the 1920s Fitzgerald descended into drinking, and Zelda had a mental breakdown.” (Biography.com). Fitzgerald's’ life becomes more havoc as he attempts to release a novel titled Tender Is the Night during the Great Depression, the novel was a failure. Later after the failed attempt of trying to release a masterpiece novel, he fled to California, where his addiction to alcohol gets worse. In 1941, as Fitzgerald is in the process of writing his novel, The Last Tycoon, Fitzgerald dies from a random heart …show more content…
attack. Nine years later on, the youth had found amusement for his work again. As of today, we study his intelligent pieces of literature. Fitzgerald’s work is not only great entertainment, it also describes his lifestyle in a particular way. It shows how the American dream comes into play when working towards success. Going back to the quote from the New Yorker article, people, or Americans, only get one chance in life, so they need to make the best out of their decisions. When it comes to being an American like Fitzgerald back in the early 1900’s, there was, and still is, many defeatists out their who claim that Americans cannot succeed along with their ego. With comparisons between Fitzgerald’s life and his book The Great Gatsby, their backgrounds have settled this claim of the American dream as it describes the young longing for a sense of ambition for achievement of the goals created by the land of the free. Even though F.
Scott Fitzgerald had a rough life in hardly ever succeeding in novel writing and having a troublesome issue with alcoholism, he however showed us the way of achieving the American dream. When he had rough times with alcoholism and not getting enough money from writing, he kept striving for that sense of reward and security. Although, most importantly through his novels he shifts the american dream ideas from his thoughts to the reader's attention. The Great Gatsby is a brilliant novel as it not only goes through the thug’s life trying to win over a girl, but it puts into detail how America can promise the achievable. This is the life of F. Scott
Fitzgerald. Works Cited “F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 7 Dec. 2017, www.biography.com/people/f-scott-fitzgerald-9296261. Gopnik, Adam. “As Big as the Ritz.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 19 June 2017, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/big-ritz. History.com Staff. “F. Scott Fitzgerald.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2010, www.history.com/topics/f-scott-fitzgerald.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald also known under his writer’s name, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is revered as a famous American novelist for his writing masterpieces in the 1920’s and 1930’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about his extravagant lifestyle in America that his wife, Zelda, their friends, and him lived during that era. In fact, a lot of his novels and essays were based off of real-life situations with exaggerated plots and twists. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels were the readers looking glass into his tragic life that resulted in sad endings in his books, and ultimately his own life.
The character of Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s commentary on the logical fallacies of the American Dream are closely intertwined, which is why Fitzgerald goes to such great lengths to separate the two. By distinguishing Gatsby from the flaws he possesses allows the reader to care for Gatsby, and the impact of his death all the more powerful when it finally occurs. By making Gatsby a victim of the American Dream rather than just the embodiment of it, Fitzgerald is able to convince his audience of the iniquity of the American Dream by making them mourn the life of the poor son-of-a-bitch
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has remained a spot-on representation of a time in American history in which the people believed anything was possible. Gatsby is the definition of this idea. The underlying cause of everything in this novel is his--and in essence everyone’s idea. This idea is the ubiquitous notion of the American Dream. And Fitzgerald does not only write about the American Dream, but about its corruption as well. This following quote truly epitomizes what the American Dream had become in the eyes of Fitzgerald:
Fitzgerald was brought up in an upper class family and was highly educated throughout his life. He pursued writing at Princeton University, but was put into academic probation shortly after. Afterwards, he decided to drop out and continue his passion for writing novels and short stories. Fitzgerald then joined the army when his first story was unapproved. Upon his return, he met a southern Alabama belle named Zelda . Since she was a spoiled young lady, she declined Fitzgerald’s proposals, after seeing he had no fortune and had encouraged to firstly seek his fortune of his own. Throughout their life together the rich and adventurous couple maintained a crazy lifestyle filled with extravagant parties all over Europe. That soon ended when Zelda
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24th, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His first novel's achievement made him well-known and allowed him to marry Zelda, but he later derived into drinking while his wife had developed many mental problems. Right after the “failed” Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood to become a scriptwriter. He died at the age of 44 of a heart attack in 1940, his final novel only half way completed.
A story isn’t a story without a deeper meaning. This proves true with the book The Great Gatsby, a book set in the roaring 20’s where the American Dream was the only thing on everyone’s mind. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald dives into the downside of the American Dream and the problems it causes. Through imagery, flashbacks, and irony, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes of the complexities of the American Dream.
Similarly, The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who plays with the idea of whether the American Dream is attainable. He projects the American Dream during the roaring twenties with the character named Jay Gatsby. Gatsby strives for the American Dream. He captures everything a wealthy man could possibly own.
F. Scott Fitzgerald also known as Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on “September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, MN” (F. Scott Fitzgerald). He got his name from his cousin Francis Scott Key who wrote the star spangled banner. He was born to Mary McQuillan (mother) and Edward Fitzgerald (father). Growing up F. Scott Fitzgerald went to many schools throughout the country. Since he grew up in St. Paul, the first school that he went to was St. Paul Academy in St. Paul. They lived in St. Paul because that’s where his mother’s family was and they were living off her inheritance. The second school he went to was Newman School. He started there only a few years after he started St. Paul Academy. He met Father Sigourney Fay there and he encouraged his work and ambition as a writer. He went on to college and went to Princeton University. There he didn’t try very hard at school and ignored his studies, for that he was put on academic probation. Not long after he was put on probation he dropped out and joined the U.S. Army. He was appointed second lieutenant of the infantry, but afraid of his death of World War II he quickly wrote a novel “The Romantic Egotist” but it was denied for publishing. Soon after he was stationed outside of Montgomery, Alabama and there he met the love of his life Zelda Sayre. She said no to his proposal at first but eventually they got married and traveled back and forth from the U.S. to Europe. They had one child together named Francis Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald then published many novels around the world and then he wife soon became very sick. “Zelda Fitzgerald perished at a fire in Highland Hospital in 1948” (Bruccoli). F. Scott Fitzgerald then published one last novel and then died of a heart attack on “D...
Certain authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, wanted to reflect the horrors that the world had experienced not a decade ago. In 1914, one of the most destructive and pointless wars in history plagued the world: World War I. This war destroyed a whole generation of young men, something one would refer to as the “Lost Generation”. Modernism was a time that allowed the barbarity of the war to simmer down and eventually, disappear altogether. One such author that thrived in this period was F. Scott Fitzgerald, a young poet and author who considered himself the best of his time. One could say that this self-absorption was what fueled his drive to be the most famous modernist the world had seen. As The New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean mentions in her literary summary of Fitzgerald’s works, “I didn’t know till fifteen that there was anyone in the world except me, and it cost me plenty” (Orlean xi). One of the key factors that influenced and shaped Fitzgerald’s writing was World War I, with one of his most famous novels, This Side Of Paradise, being published directly after the war in 1920. Yet his most famous writing was the book, The Great Gatsby, a novel about striving to achieve the American dream, except finding out when succeeding that this dream was not a desire at all. Fitzgerald himself lived a life full of partying and traveling the world. According to the Norton Anthology of American Literature, “In the 1920’s and 1930’s F. Scott Fitzgerald was equally equally famous as a writer and as a celebrity author whose lifestyle seemed to symbolize the two decades; in the 1920’s he stood for all-night partying, drinking, and the pursuit of pleasure while in the 1930’s he stood for the gloomy aftermath of excess” (Baym 2124). A fur...
Fitzgerald was ambitious at a young age, and seemed to always know he’d have a place in the world. As described in PBS’s biography of Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 24th, 1896, his father a failed wicker furniture salesman and his mother an Irish immigrant by the name of Mary (Mollie) McQuillan with a large inheritance (PBS). In St. Paul, the family lived comfortably on Mollie’s inheritanc...
This website lists Fitzgerald’s published works and offers a detailed biography of the author himself. The highlighted texts serve to differentiate different eras in Fitzgerald’s life. The site also offers several links wherein additional information regarding influential people and events can be researched.
F. Scott Fitzgerald the author of "The Great Gatsby" reveals many principles about today's society and the "American dream." One of the biggest fears in today's world is the fear of not fitting into society. People of all age groups and backgrounds share this fear. Many individuals believe that to receive somebody's affection, they must assimilate into that person's society. In the story, Jay Gatsby pursues the American dream and his passions to be happy to only come to a tragedy and total loss. The author illustrates through the characters that the search of wealth, love, or fame or going after the past ideals may not lead to true happiness.
Which in the end made him poorest of all. In the novel Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby as an example of what people think the American dream is. In an article by Harold bloom he said “Fitzgerald was a young man who was going against the prohibitions of the period and he really wanted to portray that in his novel”(Bloom
From talented child, to famous writer, to alcoholic, F. Scott Fitzgerald had an interesting life to say the least. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer and novelist from the 20th century. He was acclaimed for writing novels such as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, however he was not recognized for them until after his death. He also faced many personal struggles which affected his writing career both positively and negatively. F. Scott Fitzgerald faced many personal struggles throughout his writing career, but he overcame his problems and is now considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most compelling twentieth century writers, (Curnutt, 2004). The year 1925 marks the year of the publication of Fitzgerald’s most credited novel, The Great Gatsby (Bruccoli, 1985). With its critiques of materialism, love and the American Dream (Berman, 1996), this dramatic idyllic novel, (Harvey, 1957), although poorly received at first, is now highly regarded as Fitzgerald’s finest work (Rohrkemper, 1985) and is his publisher, Scribner 's most popular title, (Donahue, 2013). The novel achieved it’s status as one of the most influential novels in American history around the nineteen fifties and sixties, over ten years after Fitzgerald 's passing, (Ibid, 1985)