How Does Fitzgerald's Life Relate To The Great Gatsby

Why did people not respect Fitzgerald’s writing in the twentieth century, but they respects and values his work in the twenty-first century? Fitzgerald had a hard time to earning profits from his writing and he was not successful after his first novel. The story of Fitzgerald’s life reveals a close comparison between Fitzgerald and Gatsby from his number one book in AmericaThe Great Gatsby, and Fitzgerald’s emotion throughout his life show through his writing. From childhood to adulthood, Fitzgerald faced many good and bad experiences that inspired him to achieve his own American dream in a short amount of time. There are different types of experiences that Fitzgerald had throughout his life. Some experiences could be happy, exciting, or some could be sad and disturbing. F. …show more content…
Fitzgerald represented himself in the novel through Jay Gatsby. In the novel, Jay Gatsby meets Daisy when he is in the army, and he goes toDaisy’s house with another officer from Camp Taylor. He sees Daisy and he falls in love with her (Fitzgerald 148). It happened the same in Fitzgerald’s life, he also went to a Camp and Fitzgerald met Zelda and he fell in love with her (“F (rancis)”). The only difference between the author and character in the novel is that Gatsby does not marry Daisy because she wanted a husband who has money and wealth” (Fitzgerald 149-150). “Next day at five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver” (Fitzgerald 76). In Fitzgerald’s life, he married Zelda and had a child (Bruccoli). Gatsby is living by himself, in his big house, and a far away from Daisy and her husband Tom life. Fitzgerald was also living by himself because his wife was living in a hospital (Petry). Gatsby and Fitzgerald both died before Daisy and Zelda. They both find wealth. Fitzgerald gives his feelings and his experience to the character Gatsby in the novel. Basically, he is describing his life through Gatsby’s