Zelda Fitzgerald

Emory Johnson Dec.2, 2015 4th Period Dr. Rice Symbolism in the Great Gatsby It seems Fitzgerald likes to hide secret meanings behind his work. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success. The background of the author is the entire basis of the entire book itself. Fitzgerald had many ways of displaying symbolism throughout the story by the way he uses Colors, how the eyes of T.J…

In the famous novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald exhibits the beliefs and experiences of his own life in the 1920s, which also still have impact today. History.com states, “The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. For a small handful of young people in the nation’s big cities, the 1920s were roaring indeed.” Fitzgerald was a prominent author during this time due to his famous novel The Great Gatsby. In his works, he illustrated events in his own life and related…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is still relevant to today’s teenagers as it focuses on Jay Gatsby’s aspirations of wealth, love and success. The story depicts a man who throws lavish parties in the hope to attract the affection of his one true love, Daisy Buchanan. This dramatic love story, told from the perspective of protagonist Nick Caraway, follows his journey of friendship with Gatsby. Published in 1925, the novel is a fictional twist on historical facts from the Jazz Age during…

rebellious lifestyle, advances in technology, and the beginning of the Great Depression. There are also many books that were popular then, and are even more popular today. One of the authors of possibly the best known book from this era is F. Scott Fitzgerald. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the characters Nick, Daisy, and Jay show the wild lifestyle and the corruption that occurred during the 1920s. In the 1920s, people began to scratch the surface on nutrition. This new…

The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American novella by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story was later made into a film which is directed by Baz Luhrmann. The novella and the film were respectively published and released in 1926 and 2013. As the novella was published in the 1920s, the novella reflects and explores the American society in the early-to-mid-1920s, known as the Jazz age which is named by Fitzgerald. It was the time of growth, prosperity and corruption after the World War I. The story…

comfortable, but maybe because we know our dreams and reality are so different. Dreams are also described as self-deluding fantasies in which some people cannot differentiate between imagination and real-life. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby falls in love with a woman who was not strong enough to wait for his return after World War I. She ended up marrying a man, named Tom Buchanan who was just as careless as she was. This woman was Daisy Buchanan. Daisy portrayed…

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a book called The Great Gatsby which became a masterpiece in the twentieth-century. This novel is a story about the “American Dream.” He wanted to write something modern, simple and extravagant. Fitzgerald chose Nick Carraway, to tell the story because he is an outsider of the novel, is not as wealthy as Jay Gatsby and is not a judgemental individual. With the use of an essential element “luck," a writer like him was able to come up with a beautifully written piece.…

How “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Represents The 1920s What were the 1920s like? During the 1920s, women became more free and in control of themselves. Women began to be more promiscuous and to dress differently. Many young people lived lives that were less proper and more fast-paced. This era gave birth to women who totally rejected the social norms for women, known today as flappers. These women lived fast lives and participated in things that were considered improper, such as…

mind in the 20s. When Nick described Jordan and Daisy he said they were wearing a white dress but then when it comes to Myrtle she had on a “spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine.” We can see how there was still a difference in women and how Fitzgerald describe each one of them with their…

game in which people kill and utilize each other and only the people who can recognize their real situations and truly understand their strength are able to survive in such a complicated world. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes a period of America when money means everything. Jay Gatsby, the so-called Oxford man in pink, comes back to West Egg with his mysterious past to recapture his old lover, Daisy who is now Tom’s wife. Although he reunites with Daisy,…