Role Of Men In The Great Gatsby

Beautiful Fools and Army Men F. Scott Fitzgerald is not that good of a writer. The Great Gatsby is suppose to be this great book, but that is not so. His ideas were not even original. He just took his life and his wife's life, exaggerated it and added affairs, then published it. Anyone can do that.
Daisy Buchanan life is basically Zelda’s life, but amped up. “Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men…” Daisy, like Zelda, was popular with the boys in high school, and even after. They were both beautiful girls with lines of men at their doorsteps willing to do anything to be with them. “...and the decision must be made by some force—of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality—that was close at The Great Gatsby hand.” When Daisy had to pick between waiting for poor Gatsby, or marry a rich man, like Tom, she made her decision based on money and practicality. Zelda did the same thing when Scott proposed to her
When Gatsby and Scott both are sationed down south they both meet they love of their life Gatsby was rejected by Daisy because he didn’t have enough money, just like Zelda rejected Scott.They both were willing to do anything for the women they longed for. Gatsby said ‘I was in the Seventh Infantry until June nineteen-eighteen. and Scott was also in the war during 1918. “‘By the way, Mr. Gatsby, I understand you’re an Oxford man.’ ‘Not exactly.’ ‘Oh, yes, I understand you went to Oxford.’” Gatsby attended Oxford after the war for a while then dropped out, and Scott dropped out of Princeton to join the war. Nevertheless, they both dropped out of pristine colleges. ‘You must know Gatsby.’ Everyone knows the rich sucessful person as soon as they write a good book, or build in enormous house and have over the top parties. Also they both shared the american dream of having money and finding the holy