Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24th,1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota (“F. Scott”). He was an American novelist and is remembered for his boisterous personal life and the world renowned novel The Great Gatsby. Aspects of F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal life, along with the culture of the roaring twenties, inspired the famous novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born the son of Mary McQuillian and Edward Fitzgerald (“F. Scott”). Fitzgerald started his writing career in high school and continued it at Princeton University (Willet). It was at Princeton University when Fitzgerald decided that he should make a career out of writing. After being placed on academic probation, Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton University to join the army (Willet). Afraid that he might die in World War I with his literary dreams unfulfilled, Fitzgerald hastily wrote a novel called The Romantic Egotist (“F. Scott”). Although the
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publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, rejected the first copy of The Romantic Egotist, later in his life Fitzgerald decided to rewrite the novel and resubmit it for publication (Willet). Fitzgerald was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry and assigned to Camp Sheridan outside of Montgomery, Alabama. It was at Camp Sheridan when fate took control and introduced Fitzgerald to a beautiful eighteen year old girl by the name of Zelda Sayre, who would become his wife one day (“F. Scott”). He moved to New York City soon after that to pursue a career in writing. The newly rich Fitzgerald eagerly embraced his newly minted celebrity status and embarked on an extravagant lifestyle that earned him a reputation as a playboy. Unfortunately, his playboy reputation hindered his reputation as a serious literary writer (“F. Scott”). Three years later, Fitzgerald completed his best-known work The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's writing began to debilitate towards the later years of his life (“F. Scott”). Fitzgerald died of a heart attack just a few years later, on December 21, 1940, at the age of forty four. (Willet) Despite his fame and success, F Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself to be a failure (“F. Scott”). The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change ("The Roaring”).
The loss of self and the need for self-definition is a main characteristic of the roaring twenties ("Literature - Boundless”). This is a theme that is very well illustrated in The Great Gatsby ("The Roaring”). The Great Gatsby also reflects on topics as gender interaction in a mundane society ("Literature - Boundless”). In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s lavish parties, characterized by music, dancing, and illegal alcohol, are a representation of the corruption of society’s values, and are filled with guests only concerned with material things as they step further and further away from the moral values that once dictated the lives of those before them ("The Roaring”). F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s parties to illustrate the “roaring” twenties as a time of gluttonous people who have abandoned moral values. Because of the social influences in The Great Gatsby, the novel is often described as the epitome of the "Jazz Age" in American literature ("The
Roaring”).
publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, rejected the first copy of The Romantic Egotist, later in his life Fitzgerald decided to rewrite the novel and resubmit it for publication (Willet). Fitzgerald was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry and assigned to Camp Sheridan outside of Montgomery, Alabama. It was at Camp Sheridan when fate took control and introduced Fitzgerald to a beautiful eighteen year old girl by the name of Zelda Sayre, who would become his wife one day (“F. Scott”). He moved to New York City soon after that to pursue a career in writing. The newly rich Fitzgerald eagerly embraced his newly minted celebrity status and embarked on an extravagant lifestyle that earned him a reputation as a playboy. Unfortunately, his playboy reputation hindered his reputation as a serious literary writer (“F. Scott”). Three years later, Fitzgerald completed his best-known work The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's writing began to debilitate towards the later years of his life (“F. Scott”). Fitzgerald died of a heart attack just a few years later, on December 21, 1940, at the age of forty four. (Willet) Despite his fame and success, F Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself to be a failure (“F. Scott”). The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change ("The Roaring”).
The loss of self and the need for self-definition is a main characteristic of the roaring twenties ("Literature - Boundless”). This is a theme that is very well illustrated in The Great Gatsby ("The Roaring”). The Great Gatsby also reflects on topics as gender interaction in a mundane society ("Literature - Boundless”). In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s lavish parties, characterized by music, dancing, and illegal alcohol, are a representation of the corruption of society’s values, and are filled with guests only concerned with material things as they step further and further away from the moral values that once dictated the lives of those before them ("The Roaring”). F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s parties to illustrate the “roaring” twenties as a time of gluttonous people who have abandoned moral values. Because of the social influences in The Great Gatsby, the novel is often described as the epitome of the "Jazz Age" in American literature ("The
Roaring”).