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    wonder how The Great Gatsby came to be? Was the characters based on the people Fitzgerald knew? Was his relationship with Zelda similar to any in the novel? Did the setting of the novel represent his time period? Why was alcohol so popular in the novel? What did the green light symbolize? Overall what inspired Fitzgerald to write The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby was written based on him and Zelda, their relationship, the time he was living in, prohibition, and…

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby during the height of his career as an author. Although the novel didn’t sell well during his lifetime, after he passed away the sales for The Great Gatsby sky rocketed and the novel became one of his most famous works of literature. Scott Fitzgerald is known for basing events and characters from his novels from his own personal life, and this is especially prominent in The Great Gatsby. In this novel, many of the events and characters…

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    riches lifestyle, and captures life during the jazz age. Francis Scott Fitzgerald carefully places subtle hints of his life throughout this novel. Parallels can be made to Fitzgerald and his marriage, his personal dreams and goals, and even small details and personality quirks in The Great Gatsby. Mr. Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald had a very interesting marriage that many are fascinated by. Scott immediately fell for Zelda in 1918, where they met at a…

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    relevant to the life of Fitzgerald himself. The book contains aspects of his life from dropping everything to follow his passion to his life tragedies. It also shows the light and dark side of living back in the day, the roaring twenties. Some Fitzgerald 's way of life is portrayed in the writing of the Great Gatsby through Gatsby, the symbol of the green light and the theme throughout the whole book of society and class. On September 24, 1896 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was brought into the…

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many questions can be asked about Fitzgerald’s life. Two questions that can be immediately asked about The Great Gatsby are, did Fitzgerald write an autobiography about his life? And also, did Fitzgerald put his own character traits into characters Nick and Gatsby? Fitzgerald is known for using bits and pieces of his own life into his life into his works like This Side of Paradise. (Editors) Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses his own trials and…

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    The Life & Times of F. Scott Fitzgerald One of his famous quotes about life is “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. “ (Fitzgerald). F. Scott Fitzgerald endured a fairly hard life. From dealing with extreme debt, marrying crazy women, traveling all of the time to escape his troubles, and drinking problems, he considered himself a failure because none of his novels were successful when he passed away from a heart…

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    In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presented marriage. His views on marriage were clear, Scott based his view on unloyalty and marriage. Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald made monogamy unrealistic by having unloyal characters and relationships. It all began when Fitzgerald was married to a woman named Zelda. “They drank gin together and kissed in the back rows of the local theater. When Zelda shared her diary with Scott, he was so impressed with her writing and thoughts…

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    book “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald writes about a wealthy couple, the Buchanan’s, who reflect his own marriage. Tom Buchanan is from a widely wealthy family, a “sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth…a cruel body.” Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy was a beautiful girl who was spoiled, fun, and wild spirited. (Bloom 11) The Buchanan 's relate and differ in many ways to the Fitzgerald 's. In his novel “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald parallels the relationship…

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    Make sure to have your signature, which includes a link for your site, at the bottom of everything that you write online. If you participate in forums, place a link to your site in the signature of your posts. Make sure you link your website to your email. This helps you get the word about your website out to everyone you meet, and it may also have favorable SEO effects. Put a catchy slogan right before the link to encourage people to click it. If you are considering promoting your blog it is…

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, better known as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was a great American writer from the Jazz age (“F. Scott Fitzgerald | American Writer”). During his lifetime he wrote many novels and short stories based on youth, distress, and age ("F Scott Fitzgerald." Books). Fitzgerald was also one of the most inspiring writers of the Lost Generation, a group of writers who matured during World War I ("F. Scott Fitzgerald." Shmoop.com). Early Life Born in Saint Paul,…

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