The Great Gatsby 19
The 1920's were known as the "roaring twenties" because of the exclusive partying and drinking. F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up during this wild time and wrote himself many novels about the time period around him and his own experiences. The Great Gatsby, now, is one of his most famous and wide read novels throughout high school students to show the similarities between the past and the present times. Many parallels exist between The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the 1990's and my own personal life.There are many similarities between Fitzgerald's early background and those in The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald lived a very poor life when he was young. His family was poor because his father was chronically unsuccessful. His father lost his job and the so family returned to St. Paul where they had previously lived. There they lived on "the charity of his mother's well-to-do family" while Fitzgerald attended a prep school. Throughout his schooling, he received poor grades, not because he was unintelligent, but because he was too busy reading. After pushing himself and making up tests, Fitzgerald applied to Princeton University. Fitzgerald's education obviously wasn't the most important item on his agenda seeing as h
Scott and Zelda moved to Great Neck, Long Island. There Fitzgerald based his "West Egg" in the novel The Great Gatsby. Like Zelda, Fitzgerald would do anything for excitement and attention. They would run through the streets, hand in had, drinking and searching for their next party. People and the parties they attended "in that wealthy and stylish suburb provided the model in The Great Gatsby." (1) Like other during the time of Prohibition, both Fitzgerald and Zelda began drinking pretty heavily. The media surrounded them wherever they went and the Fitzgeralds fled to France. For the next few years, they traveled back and forth between France and the U.S. while Scott began writing Gatsby. His and Zelda's drinking had become intolerable, and although Gatsby himself never drank, Fitzgerald became an alcoholic like the people who attended Gatsby's parties. Scott's success was declining and the years of drinking had finally caught up to him. In December of 1940, F. Scott died of a heart attack. Sadly his life stopped short to sudden end. Zelda could not attend the funeral because she had been living in and asylum for over seven years and was too ill to take part in the funeral. F. Scott Fitzgerald died alone, as did one of his characters in his own novel, the infamous Gatsby. Between my personal life, the 1990's, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby, there are many similarities. F. Scott Fitzgerald's life parallels the novel, The Great Gatsby, within his early years of life and background, his romance and also his lifestyle after marriage. The 1990's and the "roaring 20's" parallel each other through a variety of ways but mainly through the way they partied and drank. The twenties also provided the automobile, which in turn helps me in my every day life. No matter what era we live in, people will always go out, have fun, and enjoy themselves through parties, cars, alcohol and fashion. Also, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romance parallels those in The Great Gatsby. After Fitzgerald settled down in the U.S., he met the girl of his dreams, Zelda Sayre. Zelda was a nice young lady with only eighteen years of age. Raised well by a local judge in Montgomery, Al
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