Influences In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

During his life, Frances Scott Fitzgerald had many different influences when it came to his writing. He often used people and events from his life as inspiration in his writing and from that came amazing stories that would go down in history as classics. It all started when he was thirteen and he saw one of his stories published in the St. Paul academy school newspaper. Two years later, Fitzgerald's parents sent him to Newman, a prestigious Catholic school in New Jersey. At Newman, Fitzgerald met Father Sigourney Fay who encouraged him to become a professional writer.
After Fitzgerald graduated from Newman, he attended Princeton where he wrote scripts, articles for the Princeton Tiger magazine, and articles for a literary magazine. Eventually