Fitzgeralds life in Fiction
Almost all of Fitzgerald's writings are somewhat autobiographical in some way. During the beginning of his success, he was living in the Golden Twenties, however, he always "wrote with clinical depressionaE? (Fitzgerald, viii.) This is obvious, because his main characters always seem to fall into either depression, or complete demise. Two novels that demonstrate this, are The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. A short publication of Fitzgerald's journal called, "The Jazz Age,aE? reveal Fitzgerald's true persona and make parallel connections between himself and people in his life to characters in his novels.Fitzgerald's life and ideas are strongly reflected in his novels. During these years, Fitzgerald noted in his journal, now published under "The Jazz AgeaE?, that there had begun a highly noticeable segregation of classes. There were alcoholics and non-alcoholics; old money and new money; snobby people and more modest people. All of these groups knowing nothing of each other except through hearsay. In each novel, these factors all play a role in subtly revealing Fi
In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald's strongest characters are Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Gatsby personifies new money, and Tom Buchanan, represents old money. Gatsby made himself into a rich man through shady dealings, while Tom received everything he has on a silver platter. He earned nothing but his inheritance. At the time, it was extremely desirable to be old money, because people looked at new money as vulgar and uncivilized. By illustrating social-economic class differences, Fitzgerald depicts the illusion of the corrupted American dream. The American Dream being what Fitzgerald had eventually viewed as non-existent. Fitzgerald once had a dream but it vanished with his creeping depression. Thus leading to his idea that there was no honest American Dream. This depression minutely began with his realization that New York was not a universe but only a city. It no longer whispered fantastic success and eternal youth. Therefore it no longer whispered that he could happily complete his America Dream. "His [Dick's] love for Nicole and Rosemary, his friendship with Abe North a
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