We often tell our day to day life with our friends and family. We all find something important to think about and ask others what they think about it to get a better understanding of what we truly thought about the subject. F. Scott Fitzgerald put his stories and life problems into his books where we can analyze this through biographical criticism. The Great Gatsby is an exemplary book depicting the extravagant lives in the Jazz Age surrounding the reader with the super rich. Each character is given specific traits that are permeated with Fitzgerald's real world actions and thoughts. To reflect upon his past decisions, Fitzgerald uses The Great Gatsby to incorporate his life choices as a way to sculpt Gatsby’s personality and actions in the
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Scott Fitzgerald drank. Fitzgerald was an alcoholic and he suffered from alcoholism since he was young. He lost his job, he failed making movies, and he had severe writer's block which made it hard for him to further his fine arts career. PBS goes on to tell us “Fitzgerald was already drinking to excess by the time he matriculated into Princeton in 1916. His problem only grew worse with each passing year. Throughout his life, Scott made a drunken fool out of himself at parties and public venues, spewing insults, throwing punches, and hurling ashtrays—behaviors followed by blackouts and memory loss.”. He blamed most of his problems on alcohol but he couldn’t stop drinking because it was always there for him in tough situations and even when his film crew would tell him to …show more content…
Before he became the bespoke gentleman that he dies as, Gatsby served in the army during WWI. Before he was sent into battle Gatsby met Daisy and the two had fallen in love, a love that Daisy’s father didn’t take too kindly too, mostly because Daisy was of the highest social class and Gatsby wasn’t of the same status. This is exactly what happened In Fitzgerald's life. You see, Fitzgerald Served in world war one Just like Gatsby and met his sweetheart Zelda (the daugher of an alabama mayor) during WWI and at the location he was stationed just like as Gatsby met Daisy. Fitzgerald tried to propose to Zelda while he was serving in the army but he got rejected because of the lack of success in his life which is an indirect metaphor to Daisy’s Father not accepting Gatsby as an appropriate husband because he wasn’t of the same social status. So, after the war, Fitzgerald started his novel This side of paradise and when he published it in the year 1920, it became an instant success which was the type of success that Fitzgerald was looking for his career as a writer and his love life with Zelda. But in the book, instead of Gatsby marrying Daisy. Another man by the name of Tom Buchanan, the narrator Nick Buchanan's brother married Daisy. Unlike the last Indirect metaphor, this is a whole new twist on what really happened in Fitzgerald's life. Fitzgerald purposely made To marry daisy to reassess what he might
Scott Fitzgerald drank. Fitzgerald was an alcoholic and he suffered from alcoholism since he was young. He lost his job, he failed making movies, and he had severe writer's block which made it hard for him to further his fine arts career. PBS goes on to tell us “Fitzgerald was already drinking to excess by the time he matriculated into Princeton in 1916. His problem only grew worse with each passing year. Throughout his life, Scott made a drunken fool out of himself at parties and public venues, spewing insults, throwing punches, and hurling ashtrays—behaviors followed by blackouts and memory loss.”. He blamed most of his problems on alcohol but he couldn’t stop drinking because it was always there for him in tough situations and even when his film crew would tell him to …show more content…
Before he became the bespoke gentleman that he dies as, Gatsby served in the army during WWI. Before he was sent into battle Gatsby met Daisy and the two had fallen in love, a love that Daisy’s father didn’t take too kindly too, mostly because Daisy was of the highest social class and Gatsby wasn’t of the same status. This is exactly what happened In Fitzgerald's life. You see, Fitzgerald Served in world war one Just like Gatsby and met his sweetheart Zelda (the daugher of an alabama mayor) during WWI and at the location he was stationed just like as Gatsby met Daisy. Fitzgerald tried to propose to Zelda while he was serving in the army but he got rejected because of the lack of success in his life which is an indirect metaphor to Daisy’s Father not accepting Gatsby as an appropriate husband because he wasn’t of the same social status. So, after the war, Fitzgerald started his novel This side of paradise and when he published it in the year 1920, it became an instant success which was the type of success that Fitzgerald was looking for his career as a writer and his love life with Zelda. But in the book, instead of Gatsby marrying Daisy. Another man by the name of Tom Buchanan, the narrator Nick Buchanan's brother married Daisy. Unlike the last Indirect metaphor, this is a whole new twist on what really happened in Fitzgerald's life. Fitzgerald purposely made To marry daisy to reassess what he might