F Scott Fitzgerald's Life

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life is a tragic example of both sides of the American Dream – the bliss of young love, wealth and success, and the tragedies associated with excess and failure. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. Fitzgerald began writing at an early stage in his well known life. During his time spent it Princeton University before dropping out to join the army and pursue his obsession with writing. Princeton published his detective stories in their newspaper encouraging him to focus on his great talent. At the early age of 21 he submitted his first finished product titled The Romantic Egoist for publication. Unfortunately Charles scribner’s sons rejected it, but with words of encouragement. Which gave him the fuel he needed to go back and rewrite the novel in order to perfect the piece and resubmit it for publication.
Once again scribner’s rejected his novel, so he turned elsewhere to find a steady source of income which he struck through aqdvertising. Unfortunately for his sake his sweetheart Zelda broke off their engagement due to the fact that his salary didn’t satisfy her needs and tired of waitin for him to make his fortune. blissfully scribners finally accepted the once not so great novel after Fitzgerald wrote it for the third time as The Side Of Pradise, ad published it a year later. Once the deal fell through causing him to tranform into a well known wealthy author his love Zelda fell back into his