Often times authors develop their characters or plots from people and events in their lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for “describing in semi-autobiographical fiction the privileged lives of wealthy, aspiring socialites” which in turn created a new breed of characters in the 1920’s (Willhite). It is said that “His tragic life was an ironic analog to his romantic art” (“Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald”). Fitzgerald’s most famous work,The Great Gatsby “extends and synthesizes the themes that pervade all of his fiction: the callous indifference of wealth, the hollowness of the American success myth, and the sleaziness of the contemporary scene” (“Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald”). In the novel Daisy Buchanan and Gatsby’s relationship are a representation of his own marriage to Zelda Sayre. Fitzgerald depicts his forced and uneasy marriage with Zelda through his characterization and actions of Daisy Buchanan.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in September of 1896 to a middle-class american family in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was “a quiet man with beautiful Southern manners” (“Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald”). When Fitzgerald attended Princeton in 1913 “a small, handsome, blond boy with disconcerting green eyes” fought hard for success, but due to illness and low grades, he dropped out of Princeton in 1915 without a degree (“Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald”). In November of 1917, Fitzgerald enlisted into the army with a second lieutenant’s commission. He was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery Alabama. It is there that Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, “the daughter of a justice of the supreme court of Alabama, a beautiful, witty, daring girl, as full of ambition and desire for the world as Fitzgerald”; Fitzgerald would come to marry Miss ...
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...is money and Zelda’s “necessity of financial stability” of Fitzgerald (Celine). Similar to how the desire for Daisy brought the downfall and death of Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s critics define his wife as “an inspiration and a liability”; likewise Fitzgerald’s close friend, Ernest Hemingway, alluded Zelda in A Movable Feast, as a harlot who sabotaged her husband’s career (Curnutt).
By the conclusion of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby and Daisy once again cannot be together; Daisy retrieves back to her abusive husband, Tom and Gatsby is murdered. Fitzgerald and Gatsby’s American Dream is unattainable, once Gatsby died, so did Scott’s mirage of his marriage. The tragic conclusion of the novel provides a peek into the despondent fantasy brought upon by his family’s detachment from reality, but the theme constructed in lust, determination and incapability to let go of the past.
Gatsby’s wealth did not bring him happiness nor did it bring him Daisy. Gatsby was so devoted to his love for Daisy that when she ran over her husband’s mistress, he took the blame. It was that last act of gallantry that cost him his life. In a mad rage the husband of the woman Daisy ran down killed Gatsby. It was only then that the truth that Gatsby’s new life was superficial came to light. His so called friends were users. His love affair a farce. Instead of staying by his side Daisy returned to her husband. None of the hundreds of people who came to his parties ventured to his funeral. Not even his partner in crime, Meyer Wolfsheim, cared about him in the end. He was no longer of value to any of
Scott Fitzgerald implemented his life into his short stories and novels. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald includes three main ideas that relate to his own life. In The Great Gatsby many of the characters drink quite frequently. Fitzgerald was also a known alcoholic and would frequently attend parties. Another relation between The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald's personal life is Nick Carraway living among many rich. Nick is an outsider looking in on the ridiculousness of the wealthy. Fitzgerald was just like Nick in this way, he was not very wealthy but he lived among them and saw how they lived. The most significant example of of Fitzgerald's life in The Great Gatsby is Daisy and Gatsby's relationship. When Gatsby meets Daisy and he asks her to marry him she says no and later explains that “rich girls don't marry poor boys”. When Fitzgerald asks Zelda to marry him she doesn't because he doesn't have enough money yet. This is the most blatant example of Fitzgerald injecting his own personal experiences into The Great Gatsby. (Shmoop Editorial
Fitzgerald was brought up in an upper class family and was highly educated throughout his life. He pursued writing at Princeton University, but was put into academic probation shortly after. Afterwards, he decided to drop out and continue his passion for writing novels and short stories. Fitzgerald then joined the army when his first story was unapproved. Upon his return, he met a southern Alabama belle named Zelda . Since she was a spoiled young lady, she declined Fitzgerald’s proposals, after seeing he had no fortune and had encouraged to firstly seek his fortune of his own. Throughout their life together the rich and adventurous couple maintained a crazy lifestyle filled with extravagant parties all over Europe. That soon ended when Zelda
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.
...s motivation to reach into Daisy’s heart is the downfall that lead to Gatsby’s persistent nature which concentrate solely the past, Also, emptiness of existence with realization to taint ideal, Gatsby’s heart fill with illusions. As a great man his death overflows with generosity and kindness that people did not notice. The good man Gatsby’s death is a tragic, but in the end it’s another meaningless loss that buried as a lonely hero.
Fitzgerald, like Jay Gatsby, while enlisted in the army, fell in love with a girl who was enthralled by his newfound wealth. After he was discharged, he devoted himself to a lifestyle of parties and lies in an attempt to win the girl of his dreams back. Daisy, portrayed as Fitzgerald’s dream girl, did not wait for Jay Gatsby; she was consumed by the wealth the Roaring Twenties Era brought at the end of the war. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents the themes of wealth, love, memory/past, and lies/deceit through the characters Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom.
On September 24, 1896, a man was born who would to become one of the greatest authors in American history. Short story writer and novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the classic American novel The Great Gatsby, used his experiences and relationships during the early 1900s to inspire his writing. In specific regards to The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s relationship with his wife Zelda directly corresponds to his creation of the character Daisy Buchanan, and informs his critique of the American elite of the 1920s. Zelda directly inspired Daisy; this can be seen through the similarities in their upbringings and in their personalities. Zelda and Daisy were each brought up in very wealthy, old-money families in the southeast. Both women were social-climbing women interested in marrying up the social ladder, and both were materialistic, attention-seeking, and recklessly uninhibited. Additionally, through his negative portrayal of Daisy in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s critique of the American elite can be seen to stem from his relationship with his wife. It was the relationship with Zelda that led to Fitzgerald’s critique of wealthy America, and the character of Daisy directly represents her.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a fictional story of a man, Gatsby, whose idealism personified the American dream. Yet, Gatsby’s world transformed when he lost his god-like power and indifference towards the world to fall in love with Daisy. Gatsby’s poverty and Daisy’s beauty, class, and affluence contrasted their mutual affectionate feelings for one another. As Gatsby had not achieved the American dream of wealth and fame yet, he blended into the crowd and had to lie to his love to earn her affections. This divide was caused by the gap in their class structures. Daisy grew up accustomed to marrying for wealth, status, power, and increased affluence, while Gatsby developed under poverty and only knew love as an intense emotional
“He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it; he did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.” (Fitzgerald, 180). This novel, The Great Gatsby, was written by an insightfully amorous man names F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story was, loosely, based off of his life of love, trouble, parties, and death. The Great Gatsby is a story about an observant unbiased man named Nick Carraway who helps out young proscribed love. But he fails to perceive the foreshadowed future of the two estranged couple that is Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Throughout the entire novel, all the way till the end, Gatsby never gives up on his hope to win Daisy over from Tom. Whenever Gatsby feels that he has won, something happens that brings everyone, including him, disappointment.
In Fitzgerald’s works, losing love to someone of a higher status is a recurring motif. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby and Daisy are two lovers, brought apart by war. During this time Daisy marries a man named Tom, an extremely privileged young man, because of her need for love and falls in love with the wealth, rather than the man and the “perfection” that comes with it. When returning from the war, Gatsby sees their life in the newspapers
F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), is about many things that have to do with American life in the "Roaring Twenties," things such as the abuse of alcohol and the pursuit of other pleasures, including that elusive entity, the "American dream." Mainly it is the story of Jay Gatsby, told by Gatsby's friend and neighbor, Nick Carraway, a bonds salesman in New York. Three other important characters are Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Myrtle Wilson. Nick is distantly related to Daisy, whose wealthy husband, Tom, went to college with Nick. Myrtle is married to a mechanic but is sleeping with Tom. Fitzgerald's novel seems to affirm the Biblical adage that the love of money is the root of all evil, for his characters value money inordinately. And this attitude is a central moral concern of the novel. Fitzgerald's characters erroneously believe money can buy them love, friends, and happiness.
The 1920’s was a time of great change to both the country lived in as well as the goals and ambitions that were sought after by the average person. During this time, priorities shifted from family and religion to success and spontaneous living. The American dream, itself, changed into a self centered and ongoing personal goal that was the leading priority in most people’s lives. This new age of carelessness and naivety encompasses much of what this earlier period is remembered for. In addition, this revolution transformed many of the great writers and authors of the time as well as their various works. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, perfectly symbolizes many emergent trends of the 1920’s. More importantly the character of Jay Gatsby is depicted as a man amongst his American dream and the trials he faces in the pursuit of its complete achievement. His drive for acquiring the girl of his dreams, Daisy Buchanan, through gaining status and wealth shows many aspects of the authors view on the American dream. Through this, one can hope to disassemble the complex picture that is Fitzgerald’s view of this through the novel. Fitzgerald believes, through his experiences during the 1920’s, that only fractions of the American Dream are attainable, and he demonstrates this through three distinct images in The Great Gastby.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, marriage is portrayed as just a lighthearted decision that the characters in the novel make. This textual evidence from the novel gives the reader proof that the whole idea of marriage and love is just a delusion and is not important to the characters. The marriages between Tom and Daisy, Myrtle and Wilson, and The McKee’s are certainly different circumstances, but the three marriages in the novel show just how marriage in the 1920s in America was viewed.
It is commonly believed that all those who are wealthy adhere to a similar set of values, characteristics and have similar lifestyles. Fitzgerald provides the reader a clear view through the eyes of Nick Caraway of the differences and similarities that can be found between wealthy people in the roaring Twenties. Two characters that are very important to the story are Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Fitzgerald created two purposefully different characters- one that is easily despised, the other that although not perfect, is likeable- and united them in their love for money, the power that comes with it , and their haunt for the ultimate prize – Daisy. In this essay, we will compare Tom and Gatsby in several areas, including personality, loyalty, and life style so we can come to the conclusion whether or not they are perfect foils of each other or not. Tom and Gatsby bare little similarities and their differences are evident.
The biblical and cultural building block of marriage is hope. In a traditional wedding ceremony, vows are exchanged from each partner with an assumption, hope, and trust that these vows will be kept sacred. However, in the twentieth century this expectation changed. F Scott Fitzgerald represents this sociological change through characters in his novel, The Great Gatsby. In his novel, there are two prominent married couples: the Wilsons and the Buchanans. Myrtle Wilson and Tom Buchanan are a prime example of infidelity in the twentieth century..