Mrs. Kutschman
English 3s
3/17/2016
The Great Gatsby:
To understand The Great Gatsby, By F. Scott Fitzgerald a reader will find it helpful to know some details about Fitzgerald's life and experiences. F Scott Fitzgerald fawned on the rich; that he was a mongrel of letters; that being tarred by his self-destructive relating this to Gatsby who is also rich and mainly wanting love.(an american sublime)
Throughout the novel Daisy appears to be very flighty and nervous , but she is very cunning. She also is a noticeable negligent mother. Her daughter is mentioned only twice in the novel and then it is when Daisy is “showing her off”. The only time that Daisy shows her daughter is when she tells Nick about when she discovered the …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald is a famous American writer of novels and short stories. His works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is a member of the “Lost Generation” and is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He has written five novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his most famous), Tender is the Night, and The Love of the Last Tycoon (unfinished). F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota into a middle-class family, and his father was gentlemanly but unsuccessful in business. He got an expensive education in private schools. When he was 15 years old, he entered in Newman School. In 1913, after graduating from the Newman School, he studied in Princeton University, where he founded his interest in literary writing and decided to cultivate his writing techniques industriously. At the university, he met the future famous critics and writers Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop, who gave him a lot of benefit in his writing career and life. He also took part in the Triangle Club, an intellectual club, where he began to write shows for the club. With the efforts he had made in the literary, he developed a reputation in …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald, in my opinion; I think the whole book is referred to his own personal life he went through a lot, went to the army like Gatsby and lost the love of his life, he tried so hard to get back with her, went to parties, wrote books and lived a high life he thought his love of his life wanted and that drove him crazy. I don’t know much about Fitzgerald but coming from all the research i did, all the books i had to read, and every online notes i went through. He is a convincing personal because if your read his other books “This side of paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, etc” In most of his books, he bring them to life, the more you read, the more interesting it gets and your won’t stop until it’s all finished. But the book Gatsby is all about himself trying to get his love of his life and all the things he had to do. He did evil things to get money for her, he even took the blame for killing Myrtle Wilson's wife after Daisy run her over. At the end, he ended dying with nothing, all the money gone and the love of his life not with him and that is painful and in a kind of way, it got to me. In this case, Fitzgerald doesn’t die, he just idolizes himself not ending up with girl as a painful way of