The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels, and short stories that epitomized the mood and manners of the 1920's, the Jazz Age, as it was called. Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and attended Princeton University, where he mostly ignored formal study, instead receiving his education from writers and critics, such as Edmund Wilson, who remained his lifelong friend. In 1917 he quit Princeton to take an army commission, and in training camps he revised the first draft of his novel This Side of Paradise (1920). While at a camp in Alabama, he fell in love with a 18-year-old named Zelda Sayre, who, as the archetypal flapper, was to become as integral a part of Fitzgerald's fiction as he was. In 1924 the Fitzgeralds left their Long Island home for the French Riviera, not to return permanently to the U.S. until 1931. In five months he completed The Great Gatsby. Although it is generally regarded as his masterpiece, Gatsby sold poorly, thus accelerating the disintegration of his personal life. It is a sensitive, satiric fable of the pursuit of success and the colla
In my opinion, an adult would have taken this issue to court or to the local police. Nick Carraway, the narrator is a nice honest person that listens to everyone's problems. Other than that, this book is very believable. Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy playboy and his beautiful wife, are Nick's cousins; Nick does not like Tom too much. Just like in the novel when I think it was Daisy was only eighteen years old when Gatsby wanted to marry her, Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda was eighteen when they married as well. Little is known about him at first. Overall, I think that The Great Gatsby is a very good book. So on a scale of one to ten, I would probably give this book an eight. Later, we find out about Gatsby's life, how he went to Oxford, inherited his fortune from his family etc. Meanwhile, Wilson discovers that Myrtle is unfaithful and before long he had her locked up. I really do believe that he based this book on he personal encounters though. At the party, Gatsby introduces Mr.
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