Zelda Fitzgerald

articles in my University’s newspaper, and stories for the Nassau Literary Magazine. Although, my passion came to a halt when I decided to end my schooling in efforts to join the U.S. Army in 1917. Not far into the war is when I met my beautiful wife, Zelda Sayre. Finally when the war ended, the twenties began to roar and I travelled to Paris with my wife and indulged in drinking, dancing, and partying excessively.…

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic story at first glance is about money, fame, great parties, and a tragic ending to a love story. On a deeper look though it is about the struggles of a young man to achieve the true American Dream which is to get the woman he loves to be with him and live happily ever after, but of course the wills and actions of others and himself turns his life upside down. This story is so iconic because of one thing Fitzgerald based his characters off his…

considered the greatest ever written and have five movie adaptations of it. This critically acclaimed author lived during America’s Jazz age, an era where the U.S was involved in cultural change and few authors could truly depict what was happening. Fitzgerald distinguished himself as an esteemed author through his unique writing style achieving his legendary fame within this era. Fitzgerald’s most unequivocal traits are in correlation with his status as one of America’s greatest authors. His…

he strives to have more money to impress one girl. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the East Egg, West Egg and the Valley of Ashes to demonstrate the complexities of the American Dream. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was not just an accomplished writer, but his childhood and adult life shaped him to the be the stellar writer that inspired him to write The Great Gatsby. On September 24, 1896 Fitzgerald was born to Edward and Mary Mcquillan Fitzgerald (Kosher). Edward and Mary Mcquillen were not original on…

The Great Gatsby as a Criticism of American Society In the novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald criticizes American society through the eyes of his narrator Nick Caraway, as he watches the…

F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, was born to a family that “was considered socially prominent and genteelly poor” (1557). With the 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,…

Obituary Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896. After Edward Fitzgerald, the father, lost his job with Procter & Gamble in New York (1908), Francis Scott, moved back to St. Paul with his mother, Mary McQuillan. At the age of thirteen, Francis attended St. Paul Academy where he began his passion for literature, publishing an article in the school newspaper. At the age of fifteen, Francis attended Newman School in New Jersey where he continued to pursue…

F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was his third book written and is his most popular. The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who is Gatsby’s neighbor at the time. The story is told around 1920’s when the incidents that happen in the book takes place. F. Scott Fitzgerald put himself in the story by adding similarities and differences to the characters in the book to himself. One of the first similarities is that the narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, and the author Scott Fitzgerald both…

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, well known as the author of The Great Gatsby born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896. His family was really poor. However, with the financial support from his mother’s side, he was able to continue study. In 1917, Fitzgerald participated in WWI. There, he met Zelda Sayre, who did not like him at first because he was poor. The Side of Paradise is the first novel he wrote when he came back from the war. Zelda did not show love toward him until the book was published in 1920…

The Great Gatsby is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in April 10, 1925 and it has been a classic throughout the years. It has a jazz age setting that took place during World War 1. This setting time contributed to the belief in the “American dream”, which means that if you are willing to work hard, you can achieve whatever you want, even if you come from nothing. It is a novel that contains many conflicts pertaining to loyalty, wealth, betrayal, society, and class that made the book…