Zelda Fitzgerald

becoming effective in 1920. The ideal woman of the 1920s, Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby’s love, was the golden girl of the Roaring 20s with “an absolutely perfect reputation… because she didn’t drink” (Fitzgerald 77); Jordan tells Nick that “it’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people” (Fitzgerald 77). Even though she knows drinking harms her reputation, Jordan does not care, labeling her as a risqué. Even though people told me that I drank too much, I did not believe them. I would…

In Barbara Joyce’s paper, she explains feminist theory borrows ideas from ideological, sociological, and philosophical theories, but a feminist lens specifically discusses sexism and the rights of women. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Nick Carraway’s views of the 1920s, the world around him, and the people he talks to. Some of the people he talks to are the Buchanans, Daisy and Tom. Daisy is seen by many readers as a stupid, selfish, and subservient character, but she truly…

One of the most famous authors of American history, F. Scott Fitzgerald started out as a nothing, and he was a nothing. After he wrote his first novel to win over his one love, Zelda, Fitzgerald was a star. This first novel, This Side of Paradise, was his big break. The irony, though, is that Fitzgerald has a rags to riches story while his main character, Amory Blaine, has a riches to rags story. Fitzgerald used the society around him to assist in the historical context of the novel. He used the…

The novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals the corruption of the different societies based on what they have. In Gatsby’s setting, the 1920’s, people were divided into groups: old money, new money, and the working class. However, all the groups were tied down by rules on how they should act. Fitzgerald uses diction, imagery, syntax, and figurative language to reveal the class expectation that go with wealth division. By examining the diction said by Gatsby, as well as the…

and mental health victim, F. Scott Fitzgerald is debatably one of the most influential American novelists of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald was born September 24 of 1896, as the third child of five. He began his primary college experience at Princeton, and wrote for the college newspaper there. His education did not last long, though, as he dropped out, due to him flunking all of his classes. Instead, he chose to join the army. After he returned, he met a girl named Zelda Sayre at a country club party…

Title- What is it significance? The Great Gatsby is a man named Gatsby who went from being poor to being able to gain a large amount of wealth. Throughout the book, his qualities that are shown could be seen as great. Gatsby was known for throwing huge parties to attract the love of this life Daisy as well as being able to maintain his humbleness even when he became rich. The title can actually be ironic because Gatsby wasn’t even his real name and he became wealthy through illegal…

bootlegging. “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong.” (Fitzgerald 133) The feelings between Tom and Gatsby are mutual because he hates Tom. The reason that Gatsby hates Tom is that he married Daisy and Gatsby feels that Tom is not good enough to be Daisy’s husband. The reason that Gatsby feels that…

Scott Fitzgerald’s American dream had been to become a wealthy, socially accepted, writer, and to marry Zelda Sayre. In comparison with Gatsby, Fitzgerald was able to attain the social acceptance in which he had so utterly desired. Shifting to today’s American dream in 2016, words such as “materialistic” and “self-motivated” would be used to define this dream. In contrast, Gatsby…

Jazz age began in July 1918 in Montgomery, Alabama. There at the Montgomery country club, walked in Zelda Sayre who caught the eye of many men. That did not matter though, the only one who mattered was First Lieutenant Francis Scott Fitzgerald. “At seventeen, Zelda was “sophisticated for her age,” recalled on of her friends “but she still had the charm of an uninhibited, imaginative child”(13). Zelda Sayre was commonly…

The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald reveals what occurs when this vision is engaged too far, thus challenging readers’ beliefs by portraying the theme of illusion versus reality through the characteristics and inspirations of the characters, their twisted relationships, and powerful motifs and symbols of their own dream. What is one to do when the fantasy seems to surpass reality? What are the penalties when a successful man lets the fantasy matter more than life itself? Fitzgerald shows that…