Zelda Fitzgerald

you might have noted I included your letter addressing the film adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s own understanding of the renown literary classic, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by Scott F. Fitzgerald - at the initial start of this letter. Your chosen descriptors of Luhrmann’s piece, ‘basic’, ‘simplistic’ and ‘surface-level’ only…

of style, the American Dream, and how to have a great time. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an example of greed, corruption, and substance abuse. The twenties was a true revolutionary time period, considered the peak of the “Progressive Political Reform.” It was the beginning of true change. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. To Edward and Mollie Fitzgerald. Both of his folks were extremely unsuccessful, however he declined to be that way. He…

F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up in the dawn of the twentieth century in a middle-class household. After attending a boarding school in New Jersey, Fitzgerald studied at Princeton University where he befriended campus intellectuals and attempted to join the football team unsuccessfully. After three years at Princeton, he decided to join the army, where he met his future wife, Zelda Sayre, who rejected him at first. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, a story that touched on the subject of the…

  "(...) Daisy, who was sitting frightened but graceful,  on the edge of a stiff chair."   Then there is Gatsby,  who is so conscious of his appearance,  that he almost knocks over the clock.  Again the reader is presented with evidence of nervousness and awkwardness,  as it is very common behaviour to be rather clumsy when one is unsure of ones self,  due to the presence of a person one is attracted to.  After this small incident Gatsby also…

On the dustjacket on which Fitzgerald had insisted for Gatsby, a pair of sorrowing beautiful eyes, presiding above orgiastic neon, bears a foetus. And in this novel, high above the urgent, suave contestings, like an adult far removed from the fevers of sibling rivalry, a craved symbolic…

back so they both left. On the way home Daisy was driving dangerously and hit a pedestrian which was Tom lover. This angered her husband and he ended up killing jay Gatsby for the crime he didn’t commit. The Great Gatsby author is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was an “American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depiction of the Jazz Age.” Born on September 24,1896 in St. Paul Minnesota and died in Hollywood, California on December 21, 1940. Back then the Jazz Age was considered…

F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up in the dawn of the twentieth century in a middle-class household. After attending a boarding school in New Jersey, Fitzgerald studied at Princeton University, where he befriended campus intellectuals. After three years at Princeton, he decided to join the army, where he met his future wife, Zelda Sayre, who rejected him at first. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, a story that touched on the subject of the American dream as well as some of his own…

The United States reflected a loss of faith in traditional values and beliefs such as the American Dream during the modern artistic and cultural movement. Modernism originated in Europe and swept the United States at the turn of the 19th Century, having its core period between World War I and World War II, then continuing into the early 20th Century. During the modernist movement, citizens felt hidden behind the 19th Century Victorian Era history of art and literature in an entirety, causing…

Introduction The social writer F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby to touch upon many social issues, such as the ever-prevalent American Dream, and human pursuits such as the need for love, power, social recognition, and purpose. Set in the Jazz Age, themes such as how money and greed destroy people are brought forth. In The Great Gatsby, the characters are hedonistic and decadent; just like some people in today’s society. Fitzgerald questions this self-seeking mentality: Is it worth it?…

The True Story of Ella As she walked down the dirty path in the woods, she kept looking behind her, with a sense that she was being followed. The sky was dark with only the moon to guide her. The only sounds that could be heard were the soft hoots of an owl and the hints of music from the festival. The girl clutched her bag even tighter as she walked down the road. ***** When Ella was born, she was raised to be a wonderful child, who was kind and courageous. The day that Ella 's mother died…