The Great Gatsby
THE GREAT GATSBY ESSAY “I want to write something new-something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. Masterpieces are not accidents. Geniuses know what they are doing or trying to do. They need luck, but knowing how to use the luck is an essential element of a writer’s equipment.”
This quote written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is quite phenomenal, and I agree with it 100%. It tells us a bit about Fitzgerald like he strives to make sure that the reader understands his books.
BIOGRAPHY
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in Minnesota. He was not a bright kid at school so his parents sent him to a boarding school. Academic troubles and apathy overwhelmed him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead he was enlisting in the army in 1917. Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with seventeen year old girl named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success.
Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his book, The Great Gatsby. In many ways, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was driven by his love for a woman who symbolized everything he wanted, even as she led him toward everything he despised. Fitzgerald personality is described by Gatsby, the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved, and the other part Nick, the quiet, reflective mid-westerner loose in the garish East. But Fitzgerald is more similar to Jay Gatsby because he was a young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp. Fitzgerald fell into a reckless life-style of parties and
This quote written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is quite phenomenal, and I agree with it 100%. It tells us a bit about Fitzgerald like he strives to make sure that the reader understands his books.
BIOGRAPHY
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in Minnesota. He was not a bright kid at school so his parents sent him to a boarding school. Academic troubles and apathy overwhelmed him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead he was enlisting in the army in 1917. Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with seventeen year old girl named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success.
Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his book, The Great Gatsby. In many ways, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was driven by his love for a woman who symbolized everything he wanted, even as she led him toward everything he despised. Fitzgerald personality is described by Gatsby, the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved, and the other part Nick, the quiet, reflective mid-westerner loose in the garish East. But Fitzgerald is more similar to Jay Gatsby because he was a young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp. Fitzgerald fell into a reckless life-style of parties and