Jay Gatsby was its author, the American Francis Scott Fitzgerald, radiant, beautiful and very fragile prince, a Twilight Age of Jazz, announced the collapse because its excess power. Fitzgerald was the chronicler of the 20s, but also their fallen angel, with full awareness of the character who attends his own collapse and you can tell. But first, long before Charles Scribner rejected his first novel, with its working title The romantic egomaniac, he had been the handsome young Lieutenant Jay Gatsby and asked in marriage to Zelda Sayre, who had rejected him for the very reason Southern "not having enough money to support a wife." Like Gatsby, Scott, would never come to the trenches, because the armistice was declared he was about to embark for Europe, a biography solid enough to be worthy of his aspiration was hatched: he was employed in an agency New York advertising and worked to exhaustion in rewriting his novel, which would be called This Side of Paradise and became after its publication, to the greatest critical success and sales of the moment, making its author spokesman for all a generation that felt, reading the novel, its characters spoke not exactly like them, but as they would like to do, with the Jazz beat fúlgido pergolas, glassware and champagne in
