This Side of Paradise

help of relatives he attended Princeton and in 1917 he left Princeton and served in World War 1. While in Alabama for military training, he fell madly in love with Zelda. Fitzgerald wrote his first novel, This Side of Paradise and it appeared in March 1920. About one week after This Side of Paradise appeared Fitzgerald and Zelda married, but though their relationship started off great it quickly turned sour. By the 1930s, his wife became extremely ill and Fitzgerald took up excessive drinking,…

His writings are: This Side of Paradise (1920), Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tale of Jazz Age (1922), The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), The Vegetable or from President to Postman (1923), The Great Gatsby (1925), All the Sad Young Men (1926), Tender is the Night (1934), Taps at Reveille (1935), The Last Tycoon, an unfinished novel (1941), The Crack-up (1945), Afternoon of an Author (1957). In Short, the American dream of attaining fortune and happiness was the central idea in the minds…

“Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you’ve had” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald is a writer who has imposed himself and his life story into many of his characters. Most notably, his famous novel called The Great Gatsby, is about a man who feels unhappy despite his wealth. However, there is another story in which Fitzgerald uses himself as the main character, a short story called…

wildfire helping to build this country into the superpower it is today. There are many ideas of what the American dream is, but the most popular is the one that goes something like…after x amount of years of hard work, a poor person turns $1.50 into a multi-billion dollar corporation. This popular long shot story has been told time and time again, but following World War One, F. Scott Fitzgerald “revealed the wizard behind the curtain” by uncovering the dark side associated with the…

major American novelist of the 1920s generation was more enamored with a lifestyle of excess and pleasure than F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams was part of his writing his style on his stories of wanting wealth and to be upper ranks and this can be supported by his life events, the world around him, and the analysis of Winter Dreams, even though he hated materialistic and wealth at the time. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. His father was…

lived a life he could not afford and was an alcoholic. “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life is a tragic example of both sides…

enrolled to into Princeton University in 1913. He dropped out due to poor health and bad grades. Fitzgerald then enlisted to the Army. After the armistice of World War one, he met his girlfriend Zelda Sayre. With the publication of his draft, The Side of Paradise he married his girlfriend eight days later. In 1921, the Fitzgeralds had their daughter Frances. Nine and a half years…

dislike Tom, but Daisy remains with him regardless. Unfortunately for Tom, this mistreatment of Daisy eventually sets the scene for Gatsby’s return into Daisy’s life. As explained in J. S. Lawry’s “Green Light or Square of Light in The Great Gatsby.,” Daisy while trying to show how miserable she is in chapter 1, seems insincere about her miserableness. Lawry claims that Fitzgerald’s line about how Daisy and Tom "stood side by side in a cheerful frame of light,” characterizes how content Daisy…

Picture this. It’s the age of anxiety. People and ideals are scattered about like lights in the sky, with WW1 looming over the consciousness of the people. In these times, a man named Francis Scott Fitzgerald sits over a desk pondering the events that he just barely avoided. This is the birthplace of a quite influential lovechild, The Great Gatsby. A book filled with the embodiment of the times, anxiety and worry dotting a big illuminated banner. The American dream-- quite the ambitious idea to…

In Fitzgerald’s novel, a few characters wish to change their faith, destiny, and identity by being dishonest to to their surrounding, self, and all knowing God. However, they fall and their dreams remain dreams for eternity, keeping the balance of this world just and steady. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald signifies the importance of blood and its representation through the use of allusion, foreshadowing, and symbolism to illustrate the consequence one will face for attempting to advance one 's…