Compare And Contrast Scott Fitzgerald And The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was known as an American short story writer and novelist. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He made his first successful novel, which made him famous and later married the woman that he loved. Shortly after, he constantly began to drink and his wife had a mental breakdown. In 1922, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood in order to become a scriptwriter. He passed away due to a heart attack in 1940 at the age of 44, before he passed, he was in the process of finishing his final novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, which was never completed. One of his well-known novels, The Great Gatsby, had a variety of different themes and similarities to his life that he included in his novel. He wrote The Great Gatsby to express themes with illusion and deceptions. Fitzgerald was a bright, handsome, and successful young boy, who would always make his parents become proud of him, especially his mother. When he was thirteen, he went to St. Paul Academy and saw his first piece of writing on a newspaper.

Then a year later, they had their first child, Frances Scottie Fitzgerald. When she was three, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, finished his novel The Great Gatsby. The Fitzgerald’s were living a famous life, living in different cities, though Scott Fitzgerald tried to escape it because he was an alcoholic and his wife Zelda was dealing with mental illness. In 1930, Zelda suffered many problems from her illness by going in and out from a clinic. She passed away in 1948 due to a fire that happened in the hospital, eight years after her husband’s death. While in the hospital in 1930, Fitzgerald’s problem was stated: “in 1936, hopelessly in debt, unable to write, nearly estranged from his wife and daughter, and incapacitated by excessive drinking and poor physical health”