Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" is an American classic, the book is written in a time period where the American people wanted to escape the harsh realities of the world, escape the reality of war. . I strongly belive that The Great Gatsby should not be banned from schools because, The Great Gatsby is a reminder of Americn history and what is was really like to live in the Jazz Age
Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. When he was thirteen years old he attended St. Paul Academy. This is where his first piece of writing was published; it was an article in the school newspaper. At age fifteen he attended Newman School, where a man named Father Sigourney Fay, who encouraged him to purse writing; He then attended …show more content…
There that he met and fell in love with a beautiful eighteen year old girl named Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. The war ended before he was ever deployed, and when he was discharged he moved to New York City and got a job there in hopes of marrying Zelda. After a while he quit his job and continued to write his book. The novel was published in 1920 to glowing reviews and, almost overnight, turned Fitzgerald, at the age of twenty four, into one of the country 's most promising young writers. One week after the novel was published; he married Zelda Sayre in New York. In 1922, Fitzgerald published his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned. Later on in 1924 he moved to France hoping to draw inspiration for his next novel. This novel would become one of his greatest novels, and one the greatest novels in American history, and that novel is know as The Great Gatsby. After he completed The Great Gatsby, his life began to fall apart. His wife became mentally ill and he began to travel back and forth between Delaware and France seeking treatment for her. He soon fell into alcoholism and depression, which lead to a two year period of writers …show more content…
Here is a review by H.L. Mencken 's in 1925, “Scott Fitzgerald 's new novel, The Great Gatsby is in form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that. The scene is the Long Island that hangs precariously on the edges of the New York City trash dumps — the Long Island of the gaudy villas and bawdy house parties. The theme is the old one of a romantic and preposterous love — the ancient fidelis ad urnum motif reduced to a macabre humor. The principal personage is a bounder typical of those parts — a fellow who seems to know every one and yet remains unknown to all — a young man with a great deal of mysterious money, the tastes of a movie actor and, under it all, the simple sentimentality of a somewhat sclerotic fat woman. This clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters.” In another critique, Journalist Nick Gillespie, says, “In short it 's a well-told story of desires, dreams and disaster woven into the fabric of many lives. It is like standing on the edge of a great abyss about to open. We know it 's going to happen though we may not know how. Such grandiose dreams and unrealistic expectations covering depths of fear and despair can have no other outcome. Not in literature. Fitzgerald makes us care about the story, but not the people. Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan are
Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. When he was thirteen years old he attended St. Paul Academy. This is where his first piece of writing was published; it was an article in the school newspaper. At age fifteen he attended Newman School, where a man named Father Sigourney Fay, who encouraged him to purse writing; He then attended …show more content…
There that he met and fell in love with a beautiful eighteen year old girl named Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. The war ended before he was ever deployed, and when he was discharged he moved to New York City and got a job there in hopes of marrying Zelda. After a while he quit his job and continued to write his book. The novel was published in 1920 to glowing reviews and, almost overnight, turned Fitzgerald, at the age of twenty four, into one of the country 's most promising young writers. One week after the novel was published; he married Zelda Sayre in New York. In 1922, Fitzgerald published his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned. Later on in 1924 he moved to France hoping to draw inspiration for his next novel. This novel would become one of his greatest novels, and one the greatest novels in American history, and that novel is know as The Great Gatsby. After he completed The Great Gatsby, his life began to fall apart. His wife became mentally ill and he began to travel back and forth between Delaware and France seeking treatment for her. He soon fell into alcoholism and depression, which lead to a two year period of writers …show more content…
Here is a review by H.L. Mencken 's in 1925, “Scott Fitzgerald 's new novel, The Great Gatsby is in form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that. The scene is the Long Island that hangs precariously on the edges of the New York City trash dumps — the Long Island of the gaudy villas and bawdy house parties. The theme is the old one of a romantic and preposterous love — the ancient fidelis ad urnum motif reduced to a macabre humor. The principal personage is a bounder typical of those parts — a fellow who seems to know every one and yet remains unknown to all — a young man with a great deal of mysterious money, the tastes of a movie actor and, under it all, the simple sentimentality of a somewhat sclerotic fat woman. This clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters.” In another critique, Journalist Nick Gillespie, says, “In short it 's a well-told story of desires, dreams and disaster woven into the fabric of many lives. It is like standing on the edge of a great abyss about to open. We know it 's going to happen though we may not know how. Such grandiose dreams and unrealistic expectations covering depths of fear and despair can have no other outcome. Not in literature. Fitzgerald makes us care about the story, but not the people. Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan are