How Did Fitzgerald's Life Influence The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's historical drama The Great Gatsby, set in the 1920s, is based upon Jay Gatsby who goes after his dream of reliving the past. Critics and readers proclaim that Fitzgerald has illustrated certain events and people from his life into The Great Gatsby. These events predominantly involve relationships that associate with love, anger, and shame.
One event of The Great Gatsby that was influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald's life was the time when Gatsby, the protagonist, and Daisy, Gatsby's past love, were a couple before the time of the written story. Fitzgerald was stationed near Montgomery, Alabama in Camp Sheridan, in June 1918. There he met the young and beautiful Zelda Sayre. Her family was of the upper class status as her father was an Alabama Supreme Court judge. Fitzgerald never went off to war like Gatsby, since it ended before he was to be sent, but he did leave Zelda, like Gatsby left Daisy, to find success in order to marry her. However, Fitzgerald was considered to be in a class lower than Zelda, making it difficult for them to marry as marriage …show more content…
Gatz, and Henry’s character itself is another connection to F. Scott Fitzgerald's life. Fitzgerald’s father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a poor man of a low class status. Fitzgerald wanted to be of something greater, mainly for the purpose of marrying Zelda (Teuber). Like Edward, Henry came from Minnesota and is of the lower class. Like Fitzgerald, Gatsby wanted to get away from the lower class and his father to marry Daisy. Overall, both Fitzgerald and Gatsby were ashamed of their fathers and wanted to get away from them in order to achieve the upper class status.
In conclusion, The Great Gatsby is influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald's own life through events and characters. He portrays his life through relationships, such as Tom and Daisy’s and Gatsby and his father’s. These relationships involve the emotion that Fitzgerald experienced in his
One event of The Great Gatsby that was influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald's life was the time when Gatsby, the protagonist, and Daisy, Gatsby's past love, were a couple before the time of the written story. Fitzgerald was stationed near Montgomery, Alabama in Camp Sheridan, in June 1918. There he met the young and beautiful Zelda Sayre. Her family was of the upper class status as her father was an Alabama Supreme Court judge. Fitzgerald never went off to war like Gatsby, since it ended before he was to be sent, but he did leave Zelda, like Gatsby left Daisy, to find success in order to marry her. However, Fitzgerald was considered to be in a class lower than Zelda, making it difficult for them to marry as marriage …show more content…
Gatz, and Henry’s character itself is another connection to F. Scott Fitzgerald's life. Fitzgerald’s father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a poor man of a low class status. Fitzgerald wanted to be of something greater, mainly for the purpose of marrying Zelda (Teuber). Like Edward, Henry came from Minnesota and is of the lower class. Like Fitzgerald, Gatsby wanted to get away from the lower class and his father to marry Daisy. Overall, both Fitzgerald and Gatsby were ashamed of their fathers and wanted to get away from them in order to achieve the upper class status.
In conclusion, The Great Gatsby is influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald's own life through events and characters. He portrays his life through relationships, such as Tom and Daisy’s and Gatsby and his father’s. These relationships involve the emotion that Fitzgerald experienced in his