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 collapse of the American dream.
             Nick Carraway, the narrator is a nice honest person that listens to everyone's problems. Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy playboy and his beautiful wife, are Nick's cousins; Nick does not like Tom too much. It is hinted that there are problems between Daisy and Tom; later it is revealed that Tom is having an affair under Daisy's nose with a woman name Myrtle Wilson. They end up having a fight in which Tom breaks her nose. A vert well-known man named Gatsby has a huge party; though he does not socialize. Little is known about him at first. Later, we find out about Gatsby's life, how he went to Oxford, inherited his fortune from his family etc. At the party, Gatsby introduces Mr. Wolfsheim who is involved in organized crime, which indicates that Gatsby could be ...