Compare And Contrast Hemingway And F Scott Fitzgerald

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Portraying Life Through Their Works Ernest Hemingway and Francis F. Scott Fitzgerald are some of the most renowned American authors. Their works are recognized nationwide and popularly read in high school English class rooms. Many of their works portray their life. They model characters after themselves and people they knew in their life time. Within their works and through analyzation readers can understand the life and society of the 1920’s, which many of their books are set in. Looking at the background to their life, readers begin to understand the society in which both authors lived in. …show more content…
Only then can one understand what Fitzgerald meant in his works. He tried to portray society in his lifetime by modeling characters after people in his life. The Biography. Com editors explain in their biography of Fitzgerald that Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald’s father, Edward, opened a furniture business, but it would soon fail, and lead the family to upstate New York pursing a gambling business, for the first ten years of little Fitzgerald’s childhood. The editors continue to explaining after graduating high school, Fitzgerald went to Princeton, a prestigious college. However, Fitzgerald’s obsession with writing led him to neglect his studies, resulting in probation. With the stress overload, he joined the United States Army. The editors continue saying that right before reporting for duty, Fitzgerald wrote the Romantic Egonist in a hurry and set it to the publisher. Even though the publisher rejected the work, the reviewer saw a *diamond in the rough* in Fitzgerald’s writing and encouraged F. Scott to write more (The Biograpghy.com Editors). Fitzgerald was born just before

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