The Great Gatsby
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 colla
The time period that Fitzgerald wrote this book in definitely had a lot to do with the storyline of the Great Gatsby. As a matter of fact, the novel sounds a lot like his personal life at the time. His marriage was going through a lot of problems, just as everyone's was in the book. Thus, making the novel a little biased. He was going through a tough time when he wrote the book, so it looks to me as if it was a tragedy. I really do believe that he based this book on he personal encounters though. Just like in the novel when I think it was Daisy was only eighteen years old when Gatsby wanted to marry her, Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda was eighteen when they married as well. Overall, I think that The Great Gatsby is a very good book. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a very meaningful novel. It reflected many of the faults of man during the 1920's. It was a very interesting story to read, as a matter of fact, I think that Spielberg should make this book into a movie. So on a scale of one to ten, I would probably give this book an eight. The storyline of this book is somewhat believable. I can accept that parts abo
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