F. Scott Fitzgerald's Marching Streets

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896. He was born with the name of Francis Scott Key to Edward and Mary Fitzgerald. His father took the family between cities in New York during the early years of Fitzgerald’s life. He started out his writing career at St. Paul’s Academy when his first work, a detective story, was published in the school newspaper. Then, in 1915, Fitzgerald went to a renowned Catholic school, called Newman. There he met Father Sigourney Fay, who told him to pursue his talent. Later on, Fitzgerald decided to attend Princeton, but he was not likely to graduate because of neglecting his studies. Fitzgerald left Princeton and joined the army. While stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with a much younger girl named Zelda Sayre, but she did not continue the relationship. Fitzgerald did not have enough money to make her happy. The war ended before he was ever deployed. Fitzgerald continued to write stories that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. It was reported that “Fitzgerald’s peak story fee of $4,000 from The Saturday Evening Post may have had in 1929 the purchasing power of $40,000 in present-day dollars… …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald as a novelist or short story writer, but he also wrote poetry. His poem “Marching Streets” manages to demonstrate how life was living in the most epic decade of the century through stanzas rather than paragraphs. In the poem, Fitzgerald tells about the roaring life, while explaining the emptiness people felt. Through all of the commotion of parties and trying to escape through alcohol, people still had to return to reality. The poem says, “Films all eyes and whispers on the corners…”(Fitzgerald). This is referring to how the glamour and extravagant ways of the decade can consume you, causing you not to see what is true. Fitzgerald explains that temporary, excessive habits do not fulfill the earning of something better. They just make you feel worse when the day is