How Is Fitzgerald's Life Reflected In The Great Gatsby

Fictional literature is not often seen as literature inspired by true events, although, many writers relay their stories to their personal lives. Scott Fitzgerald’s life can be directly seen through his novel The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a novel communicating the American Dream through the ideology of the rags to riches lifestyle, and captures life during the jazz age. Francis Scott Fitzgerald carefully places subtle hints of his life throughout this novel. Parallels can be made to Fitzgerald and his marriage, his personal dreams and goals, and even small details and personality quirks in The Great Gatsby. Mr. Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald had a very interesting marriage that many are fascinated by. Scott immediately fell for Zelda in 1918, where they met at a …show more content…
Similarly, Jay Gatsby met Daisy while stationed in her hometown. After The Great War, Scott was discharged from the military and lived in New York City. He made three trips to visit Zelda before proposing marriage to her and being turned down. Ironically enough, Daisy, one of the main characters in The Great Gatsby, refuses to marry Gatsby because he is not rich enough for her taste. After his first novel is published, Zelda accepts his proposal and they get married. Scott’s second novel is published (“The Beautiful and The Damned”, 1922), after their only child is born. Zelda wrote a review claiming that her personal journal entries were included, and their marriage starts to go downhill. In the year of 1925, The Great Gatsby is published. The Great Gatsby’s overall theme is of a man, Jay Gatsby, trying to rekindle things with an old lover. When considering the downhill spiral of Scott and Zelda’s marriage it is