Megan Brosnihan Great Gatsby

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Daisy's Green Light

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* promise (spring)
new beginning
Gatsby's dream that is far away and unreachable

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Valley of Ashes

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death and destruction

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Nick

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jaded
experience tasks toll on Nick
reader is not certain of who Nick really is

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Nick cont.

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Nick was raised not to judge people but this opionion was ruined after he came back from the East

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Fitzgerald's father

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Was a wicker funiture maker

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1911-1913

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Goes to Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey

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Fitzgerald quit his job in July 1919 and returned

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to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as This Side of Paradise

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After a riotous summer in Westport, Connecticut, the Fitzgeralds took an apartment in New York City;

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riotous summer in Westport, Connecticut, the Fitzgeralds took an apartment in New York City; there he wrote his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned

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Fitzgeralds expected to become affluent from his play, The Vegetable.

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In the fall of 1922 they moved to Great Neck, Long Island, in order to be near Broadway

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Paris Fitzgerald met Ernest Hemingwayòthen unknown outside the expatriate literary circleòwith whom he formed a friendship

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based largely on his admiration for Hemingway’s personality and genius.

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Fitzgerald rented “Ellerslie,”

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a mansion near Wilmington, Delaware, in the spring of 1927

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Fitzgerald wrote in 1936. Ill, drunk, in debt, and unable to write commercial stories,

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Fitzgerald wrote in 1936. Ill, drunk, in debt, and unable to write commercial stories, he lived in hotels in the region near Asheville, North Carolina,

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Fitzgerald went to Hollywood alone in the summer of 1937 with a

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six-month Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screenwriting contract at $1,000 a week

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The $91,000 he earned from MGM was a great deal of money during the late Depression years when a new Chevrolet coupe cost $619

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but although Fitzgerald paid off most of his debts

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Fitzgerald worked as a freelance script writer

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and wrote short-short stories for Esquire