How Is The Great Gatsby Romanticism

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Scott Fitzgerald was worried of dying in the war so Scott quickly wrote a novel with his own spare time, the novel was called “The Romantic Egotist.” one day Scott was commissioned as a second dupty he was ordered to camp around the Montgomery, Alabama. In the Alabama he met a beautiful girl called Zelda Sayne, Scott fell in love with her but he knew that if he was going for Zelda, it would be a tough challenge to win Zelda’s heart because there were many men who like Zelda. In time Scott proposed with Zelda but she refused in 1919, she neglected him because she wanted to make sure he could afford to take care of himself last Scott and Zelda were finally married at New York in 1920, they were known to have the most romantic relationship. Although

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