The Dreams and Realities of Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A boy of only five years old had such a strong imagination that he could describe his pony so vividly that his grandmother truly believed he had one, only he actually didn't. He told convincing stories of yachts he dreamed he had, fooling quite a few people. When he entered St. Paul Academy, he was too ambitious and too aggressive (Greenfeld 8-9, 11). He irritated others by continually analyzing them, by his ability to see through them and writing about them. "He talked compulsively and demanded that attention be paid to him, so much so that an article in the school paper asked if there wasn't someone who would poison Scotty or find some means to shut his mouth" (Greenfeld 11). This boy was to be known as Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. During his youth, he dreamed of success and achievement. He would eventually realize that dream through writing novels and short stories based on his own life, but not without its failures. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels illustrate fiction as well as autobiographical facts. Fitzgerald attempted on one hand to imitate his fictional heroes and on the other hand to compensate his personals failures by the creation of imaginary characters. This approach did not seem to have been a winning one fo
Around the same period Fitzgerald broke off with his long time friend and agent. He showed us how all these things can be destructive. Amory of This Side of Paradise not only lived the events that his author had lived, but also shared the same physical traits. Just as wealth was a major matter in the author's life, it also occupied the central position in his novels. Zelda's voice just like Daisy's in the same novel had been "full of money" (Fitzgerald 120) With the success of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald and his new wife embarked in a life of parties and drinking among the rich, spending considerable amounts of money. Every act of life from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner had become an effort" (qtd. Scott Fitzgerald became one of the best writers of the 20th century. He'd take upon himself the responsibility of making a group of people happy. Fitzgerald had had the ability to remember precise feeling which belonged to his experiences as he lived it (Mizener 115). "Fitzgerald's daughter observed that 'money and alcohol' were the great adversaries that he battled all his days" (qtd. The manner remains intact for some time after the morale cracks" (qtd.
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