F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of many great literary works during the 1920's and 1930's including The Great Gatsby, was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though his first book, This Side of Paradise, made his name famous, he spent the most disciplined ten months of his life writing the book The Great Gatsby.
             There are many ties between the book The Great Gatsby and the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. But to understand F. Scott Fitzgerald, both the man and the writer, you must understand his idea of doubleness or two-ness. Fitzgerald said himself in his famous series of essays called The Crack Up, "the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. Every thing in the book, The Great Gatsby, is touched by this idea.
             For example, Fitzgerald both loved and hated money at the same time. As an outsider, he was attracted to the life of people like Gatsby, who had all the money and the fame that you could get. But then, like Nick in the book, he identified the falseness of these types of people, and the hypocrisy that they lived in all the time.
             The doubleness in Scott is also shown by the way he maneuvered himself into Princeton. An avid writer and reader, Fitzgerald tended to read what he liked and ignore his school work, and therefore he failed his entrance exams during his senior year. After a summer of study, he took them again and failed them again. Finally on September 24, 1913, his seventeenth birthday, he appeared before the Admissions Committee and convinced them to accept him. Personal magnetism was able to achieve what hard work had not.
             There are also many ties between the relationship of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, and that of Gatsby and Daisy. Zelda, before she was married, was a combination of both a tom boyish girl and a rich southern belle, and was used to trying to be court...