Ernest Hemingway And The Great Gatsby

The prominent figure of American century writers was that of the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald who was born in 1896 he rose to fame as a speaker of the jazz age. He was, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald had the good fortune and the misfortune of being a writer who gathered up an era to greatness all by himself. Fitzgerald grew up spoiled with wealth, privilege and of his family’s prohibiting of the social setting. He was named after Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner, Key was a distant relative of Fitzgerald 's (Andrews). In 1913 he entered Princeton College and became close friends with Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop, in which they spent most of their time composing lyrics for the Triangle Club theatrical …show more content…
Fitzgerald having read Hemingway’s work in an American refugee journal six months earlier, Fitzgerald recommended Hemingway’s “In Our Time” to Maxwell Perkins, an editor at Charles Scribner’s and Sons. In addition to appreciating Hemingway’s writings, Fitzgerald was also fascinated by Hemingway’s athletic and military awards, areas in which Fitzgerald believed himself to be mediocre, but Hemingway resented Fitzgerald for his life of luxury, that he did not have much of (Mayfield 93-94). Now, over the course of their friendship, Hemingway would donate to Fitzgerald’s literary advancement as well as fix the financial issues that were developing between Fitzgerald and his wife. Hemingway familiarized Fitzgerald to Sylvia Beach and Gertrude Stein, and the two visited Edith Wharton at her salon in July 1925. Fitzgerald, increased his drinking behavior and was often frustrated by his inability to write. On the same day, when he was drunk he made outrageously inappropriate remarks. For instance, when he first met Edith Wharton, whose writing he had long admired, he told her she needed to “live a little.” His offensive comment caused her to write later that he was “horrible” (Byron 199). Among his many other drunken escapades were his attempt to saw a bartender in half to see what was inside, and his night ride down the Champs Elysees on a tricycle, hitting doormen with a bread loaf. Sara Mayfield in her book points out that both Zelda and Fitzgerald were “fast drifting into the emotional slum in which all too many expatriates ended up abroad – working too little, drinking too much…roaming aimlessly about Europe in search of some romantic paradise, lost with the first flush of their youth” (Mayfield 114). Hemingway also called noticed Fitzgerald’s problems with alcohol and the