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15 Cards in this Set
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Daisy's Green Light
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* promise (spring)
new beginning Gatsby's dream that is far away and unreachable |
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Valley of Ashes
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death and destruction
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Nick
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jaded
experience tasks toll on Nick reader is not certain of who Nick really is |
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Nick cont.
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Nick was raised not to judge people but this opionion was ruined after he came back from the East
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Fitzgerald's father
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Was a wicker funiture maker
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1911-1913
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Goes to Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey
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Fitzgerald quit his job in July 1919 and returned
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to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as This Side of Paradise
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After a riotous summer in Westport, Connecticut, the Fitzgeralds took an apartment in New York City;
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riotous summer in Westport, Connecticut, the Fitzgeralds took an apartment in New York City; there he wrote his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned
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Fitzgeralds expected to become affluent from his play, The Vegetable.
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In the fall of 1922 they moved to Great Neck, Long Island, in order to be near Broadway
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Paris Fitzgerald met Ernest Hemingwayòthen unknown outside the expatriate literary circleòwith whom he formed a friendship
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based largely on his admiration for Hemingway’s personality and genius.
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Fitzgerald rented “Ellerslie,”
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a mansion near Wilmington, Delaware, in the spring of 1927
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Fitzgerald wrote in 1936. Ill, drunk, in debt, and unable to write commercial stories,
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Fitzgerald wrote in 1936. Ill, drunk, in debt, and unable to write commercial stories, he lived in hotels in the region near Asheville, North Carolina,
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Fitzgerald went to Hollywood alone in the summer of 1937 with a
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six-month Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screenwriting contract at $1,000 a week
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The $91,000 he earned from MGM was a great deal of money during the late Depression years when a new Chevrolet coupe cost $619
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but although Fitzgerald paid off most of his debts
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Fitzgerald worked as a freelance script writer
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and wrote short-short stories for Esquire
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