Gatsby- Firzgerald Biography
An autobiographical portrayal of F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby, in The Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald, born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, is seen today as one of the true great American novelists. Although he lived a life filled with alcoholism, despair, and lost-love, he managed to create the ultimate love story and seemed to pinpoint the "American Dream" in his classic novel, The Great Gatsby. In the novel, Jay Gatsby is the epitome of the "self-made man," in which he dictates his entire life to climbing the social ladder in order to gain wealth, to ultimately win the love of a woman: something that proves to be unattainable. As it turns out, Gatsby's excessive extravagance and love of money, mixed with his obsession for a woman's love, is actually the autobiographical portrayal of Fitzgerald.While attending Princeton University, Fitzgerald struggled immensely with his grades and spent most of his time catering to his "social" needs. He became quite involved with the Princeton Triangle Club, an undergraduate club which wrote and produced a lively musical comedy each fall, and performed it during the Christmas vacation in a dozen major ci
-Raphael, Zelda met a handsome French naval aviator named Edouard Jozan. Over the next four years, Scott and Zelda managed to maintain their unstable marriage despite numerous problems. "Tommy had the great wealth, social class and fine breeding of Gerald Murphy (whom Scott would meet in 1925) combined with the good looks, athletic ability and heroic war record of Ernest Hemingway" (Meyers, 103). Fitzgerald's novel, "shows what happens to people who pursue illusory American dreams, and how society (which they have rejected) fails to sustain them in their desperate hour. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Books, 1941. Fitzgerald was excited-- and sometimes tormented --by other men's love for Zelda, which enhanced her worth in his eyes. Although Fitzgerald was a "social butterfly" while at Princeton, he never had any girlfriends. The Great Gatsby embodies the failure of romantic idealism. This proved to be the deciding factor for Zelda to marry Scott. Great Neck, along the coast of Long Island, where Fitzgerald lived between 1922-24, inspired the setting of The Great Gatsby. Longmann, New York: David Daiches, 1981.
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