Fitzgerald`s Most Despicable and Admirable Characters In The Great Gatsby there are both admirable and despicable characters. Daisy Buchanan lives in East Egg‚ which is the place in town where all the people with old money live. Daisy Buchanan is the most despicable character in the book. She gives herself the traits of being careless and selfish. Daisy can be described as a selfish woman because she only cares about herself and money. Gatsby can be considered the most admirable character in the
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Born in St. Paul‚ Minnesota‚ on September 24‚ 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald was the son of Edward Fitzgerald‚ who worked for Proctor and Gamble and brought his family to Buffalo and Syracuse‚ New York‚ for most of his son’s first decade. Edward Fitzgerald’s great-great-grandfather was the brother of the grandfather of Francis Scott Key‚ who wrote the poem “The Star-Spangled Banner.” This fact was of great significance to Mrs. Fitzgerald‚ Mollie McQuillan‚ and later to Scott. Mollie
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Many people wish to be rich and famous‚ and F. Scott Fitzgerald had these wishes too‚ but he felt as if he deserved these luxuries. This hard life inspired Fitzgerald to work hard‚ which got him into Princeton University in 1917‚ which also inspired some of his works‚ pointing out the hierarchy of Ivy-League schools. Fitzgerald then went on to make more great literary works‚ and became a very wealthy man. With every great novel comes criticism‚ and Fitzgerald’s novels were no exception‚ receiving
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The Great Gatsby The Jazz Age In 1920‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald said that "An author ought to write for the youth of his generation‚ the critics of the next‚ and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards." Fitzgerald wrote about what he saw during the 1920 ’s‚ which he dubbed "The Jazz Age‚" and The Great Gatsby is considered a correct depiction of that era. After World War I‚ many Americans felt a distrust toward foreigners and radicals because they held them responsible for the war. These beliefs
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meaning and with many different interpretations. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald shows us how society acted during the roaring 20’s. He provides us with views into worlds of love‚ money‚ power‚ and moral blindness of the time by using symbols with everyday objects and occurrences. In The Great Gatsby there are many symbols but the most important symbols are the colors white‚ yellow (gold)‚ and the green light. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses these colors to symbolize ideas such as innocence‚ wealth‚
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make the most money. This is represented in the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ in this novel a young man named Jay Gatsby had everything everyone wanted except one portion of the American dream. That was love‚ Gatsby loved a woman named daisy but was sent off to war‚ and came back later to find out that his love was just across the bay married to another wealthy man‚ Tom Buchanan. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many colors in the novel “The Great Gatsby” to highlight
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24‚ 1896 in a middle class neighborhood in St. Paul‚ Minnesota. F. Scott Fitzgerald was equally famous as a writer and as a celebrity author because his lifestyle seemed to symbolize the two decades. F. Scott Fitzgerald writing symbolized the 1920s of partying‚ drinking‚ and pursuit to pleasure while in the 1930s stood for the gloomy aftermath of excess.(Mary Loeffelholz 1822) He wrote "Babylon Revisited‚" imminently after the stock market crashed and became
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English 12 H 23 January 2017 F. Scott Fitzgerald and the 1920’s influence over his novel‚ Tender is the Night Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a heart wrenching classic that contains many of the struggles Fitzgerald faced at the time he wrote it. While Fitzgerald possessed a great deal of talent and led a life in the spotlight of fame he did not die happy. After having to watch his wife‚ Zelda‚ deteriorate and slowly die from mental instability Fitzgerald became mad trying to deal with
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Bellottie AP English III 22 October 2014 The Intricate Patterns of Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald designed his most famous novel around intricate patterns and motifs such as weather and color. Her pays very close attention to detail‚ such as the time it is impeccably hot to the color that shines at the end of Daisy’s dock. This directly correlates to the mood and the atmosphere throughout the novel‚ which is what Fitzgerald is trying to get the reader to feel. For the first time Daisy and Gatsby reunite
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The Great Gatsby “A Discussion of The Great Gatsby” The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a great romance story between two characters. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24‚ 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. In St. Paul Minnesota he lived with his mother Mary McQuillan and his father Edward Fitzgerald. (James) According to the St. James Encyclopedia when Fitzgerald was fifteen his parents sent him to the newman school in New Jersey. After he finished school he stayed in New Jersey so that
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