There are many situations that people go through that influence their decisions. Everybody grew up differently so this plays a major role in the decisions that were made in life.
This was the case for F. Scott Fitzgerald; he lived through so much during his life that he was able to incorporate it into his writing. Fitzgerald’s writing was mostly made up of the feeling that he felt, this was all affected by his life relations and time period. F. Scott Fitzgerald presented his life through his writing because life experiences and relationships influenced the characters in The Great Gatsby, and the time period in which he lived in provided a theme for the story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1894 in St. Paul, Minnesota (Rielly xv).
As a child he and his family moved around very much but once settling down he attended various private schools. In 1911 he went to the Newman School, where he would experience bullying and teasing, he then translated his feelings in his book The Freshest Boy, it told his story about how he struggled during school (Rielly 7).But the struggles that he had helped him grow as a writer because after the upsetting year at Newman School, he travelled to New York where he continued to write, especially plays. He starred in some plays and he also contributed to the school’s magazine, the Newman News, all before he left for Princeton (Rielly 7). In 1913 he entered Princeton, he was placed in academic probation in 1915 and in 1917 he joined the army (“F. Scott Fitzgerald” db). While stationed in Montgomery, Alabama he met Zelda Sayre, the love of his life (Rielly xvi). During this time he began to work his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and it was an instant success and Fitzgerald earn quite a...
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...hieving his dream of wealth and love that it is eventually destroyed by his reality (“F. Scott Fitzgerald db). Nick Carraway symbolizes this when he said, “They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together” (Fitzgerald 154).
There are many things that can influence someone to write, including feelings, emotions, and even life experiences. Life experiences can influence people because of what is felt at certain points in life, whether it is hate, happiness or betrayal. Fitzgerald uses his emotions to present a piece of work that allows his readers to get an insight into his life. The time period influenced him because there was much of change and he demonstrated this very well by showing it in his characters. The Great Gatsby is a representation of Fitzgerald’s life and the time period; it shows how he can incorporate his life into his writing.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, also known under his writer’s name, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is revered as a famous American novelist for his writing masterpieces in the 1920’s and 1930’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about his extravagant lifestyle in America that his wife, Zelda, their friends, and him lived during that era. In fact, a lot of his novels and essays were based off of real-life situations with exaggerated plots and twists. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels were the readers looking glass into his tragic life that resulted in sad endings in his books, and ultimately his own life. F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in a nice neighborhood, but growing up, he wasn’t privileged.
The Great Gatsby is a well written and exemplary novel of the Jazz age, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald desired writing his books about the roaring twenties and would explain what happened during that time frame. The majority of the characters in The Great Gatsby cared more about money, power, and having a good time then the people in their lives. This lack of caring for others resulted in the hardships the characters faced. Especially, Jay Gatsby was one of these cruel characters.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby was a remarkable book. Fitzgerald Made the characters of the book as real and as personal as possible. Three characteristics stood out in the novel to me. Tom’s Jealousy of Gatsby relationship with his wife, Gatsby’s lies about who he is and his life, and Daisy’s ways to tempt Gatsby to fall in love with her. The novel was inspired by the way he fell in love with his wife Zelda.
The Great Gatsby unravels in death and destruction due to one man’s need, for one girl. His admiration and ambition for this girl shows how the American dream can lead to so much havoc. Even though Gatsby has everything he wants, he still has a want for that girl. Fitzgerald does a wonderful job of expressing that through Gatsby and showing how a pursuit of that dream can lead to so much death and destruction. Fitzgerald shows how that American dream demands more than you have and causes harm to Gatsby and people around him. All the events connected well and tied in beautifully with the plot. It affects more than just himself and he was blind to that due to his passion for the American dream.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s visionary writing style during the early twentieth century revolutionized a new style for other writers. “Theme is most dramatically expressed through character, and Fitzgerald used the people he created to convey his personal vision of the world” (Keshmiri 2). As Keshmiri states, Fitzgerald, unlike many other writers at the time, expresses his stories through the development of the characters. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned illustrate the many flaws of human nature and how these flaws contribute to the downfall of the characters through their obsession with status, their inability to accept reality, and the use of alcohol.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald focuses on the lifestyle of a group of people who will do anything to accomplish their goals. The characters go through different changes that come to affect their life decisions and will cause them to lie, sacrifice and feel lonely in their lives. They live the American dream and have power but chase a dream that would affect and change their lifestyles. They judge and discriminate against one another not knowing they have a certain symbol in common in their lives. Their desire to accomplish their goals became a type of new life to the characters.
In the iconic novel published from the 1920's, the author displays many themes such as appearance vs reality, disillusion, love and relationship, corruption, and differences in social class. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald believes that belief in romantic destiny has dire consequences as demonstrated throughout the novel.
The broken engagement fueled Fitzgerald to jump back into writing. In July 1919, he returned to St. Paul to complete This Side of Paradise. In autumn of 1919, Fitzgerald began his job as a writer for numerous publications such as the renowned Saturday Evening Post. One year later, This Side of Paradise, his autobiographical story focusing on romance and avarice, was published. Fitzgerald’s book led to his rapid fame, which prompted h...
People tend to reflect their life experiences through the actions people perform everyday. This is commonly seen in artists, musicians and authors, who use their work as a way of expressing themselves. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby uses the novel to reflect himself, and his past experiences through several of the main characters. Nick Carraway is written by Fitzgerald as a way of manifesting his own more innocent and kinder side. While Gatsby and the Buchanans are used to show the corruption and faults within himself. The Great Gatsby was written to express FItzgerald's view of the 1920s; not only did it provide social commentary on the corruption of the American Dream, but it also presented insight into Fitzgerald's life.
Fitzgerald was born on September 28th 1896 into an upper middle class family living in Saint Paul Minnesota. His mother and father Mollie and Edward Fitzgerald named him after his second cousin three times removed Francis Scott Key the author of the star spangled banner. His mother previously had two children Mary and Louise who unfortunately passed away before he was born from illnesses at the ages of one and three. Mollie Fitzgerald became pregnant once more after that but lost the baby an hour after birth. However in 1901 Scott’s Sister Annabel was born completing the family.
Fitzgerald’s characters pursue visions of the future that are determined by their pasts, which ultimately ends in doom and discontent. Fitzgerald primarily uses Gatsby as his personified philosophy of the dangers of living in the past. Gatsby ends up dead because he cannot live in the present- so he cannot live at all. Fitzgerald wants his warning to resonate in the Great Gatsby: preoccupation with the past dooms one to
The “Jazz Age” was a term F. Scott Fitzgerald coined to describe the ostentatious era that began after World War I during the Roaring Twenties. It was a joyous time full of great prosperity. He published many famous books during this time like The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. Fitzgerald claimed to know a great deal about the glitz and glamour of the Roaring Twenties, while he never actually experienced those aspects himself. Although F. Scott Fitzgerald had many struggles with alcoholism and his marriage, he is considered to be one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.
F. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly wrote many novels as well as short stories. One of his best known works is The Great Gatsby. In the novel, the main character Jay Gatsby tries to obtain his lifetime dreams: wealth and Daisy Buchanan. Throughout the story, he works at achieving his goals while overcoming many obstacles. Fitzgerald’s plot line relies heavily on accidents, carelessness, and misconceptions, which ultimately reveal the basic themes in the story.
Themes of hope, success, and wealth overpower The Great Gatsby, leaving the reader with a new way to look at the roaring twenties, showing that not everything was good in this era. F. Scott Fitzgerald creates the characters in this book to live and recreate past memories and relationships. This was evident with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, Tom and Daisy’s struggling marriage, and Gatsby expecting so much of Daisy and wanting her to be the person she once was. The theme of this novel is to acknowledge the past, but do not recreate and live in the past because then you will not be living in the present, taking advantage of new opportunities. Gatsby has many issues of repeating his past instead of living in the present.
Following the Great War, new writers emerged and so did many cultural aspects of America, like music, poetry, and art. Americans were looking for a place in order to be able to express themselves. New York was becoming the cultural central of the new American life. American writers were slowly being discovered and this era is called Modernism. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of those writers that quickly began to express himself though literature during the era of Modernism.