Zelda Fitzgerald

Parallel Between F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby, a Coincidence? While researching texts and websites about Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and his novel The Great Gatsby, it is noticed that there are parallels between Jay Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s life. Introducing enough background knowledge about Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby will show the parallel between the authors and this fictional character. Information about the life of Fitzgerald; such as, early years, schooling, his wife,…

obvious of women’s desire for money. The whole afternoon, Daisy is amazed at Gatsby’s house and “admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate” (Fitzgerald 90). Daisy’s admiring is very extreme and enthusiastic, much different from the narrator’s, Nick Carraway, description of the house. Although Gatsby’s house is very big and extravagant, Daisy admires the slightest things, from the smell of a…

enough while caucasians felt as if they were the best. F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most prominent artists from the Jazz Age. He generated a plethora of money from his various stories and essays. It is wondered if Fitzgerald, through his many successes in literature, could be considered the ambassador of the Jazz Age. Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre, a southern belle born into upper-class Alabama. Upon meeting Fitzgerald during his days serving as a Lieutenant, she is unimpressed with…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a short story writer and a novelist considered “one of the pre-eminent authors in history of American Literature.” “No major American novelist of the 1920s generation was more enamored with a lifestyle of excess and pleasure than F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams was part of his writing his style on his stories of wanting wealth and to be upper ranks and this can be supported by his life events, the world around him, and the analysis of Winter Dreams, even…

what we truly thought about the subject. F. Scott Fitzgerald put his stories and life problems into his books where we can analyze this through biographical criticism. The Great Gatsby is an exemplary book depicting the extravagant lives in the Jazz Age surrounding the reader with the super rich. Each character is given specific traits that are permeated with Fitzgerald's real world actions and thoughts. To reflect upon his past decisions, Fitzgerald uses The Great Gatsby to incorporate his life…

According to the article " 'Gatsby ' Author Fitzgerald Rests In A D.C. Suburb” (2012), “Fitzgerald was the writer who defines the Jazz Age, with stories of carefree youth, flappers and millionaires. He became an emblem of the era, living out many of its excesses.” Fitzgerald wrote many famous stories that are still admired today. Some of these were praised so much that they have been turned into movies; however, what most people don’t know is that some of these books/movies were written based on…

partying till the crack of dawn, F. Scott Fitzgerald began his road to fame. Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton University to join the United States Army. He worried he would never be published, so he quickly crafted his first novel titled The Romantic Egotist. The novel was unsuccessful, but the editing company told him to keep writing. In hopes of being published one day, Fitzgerald continued his writing. The novel The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. Fitzgerald portrays similar…

a visual of what is happening. The Great Gatsby is a fabulous example of this. It is true that the life of the Fitzgeralds is pretty close to the life of the Buchanan’s. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the lives of Tom and Daisy were similar to the lavish lifestyle that the Fitzgeralds lead, which shows how the book is based off of the life of the author. The Fitzgeralds lived a life similar to what we see on Keeping up with Kardashians. They basically did whatever they wanted to…

American history. F. Scott Fitzgerald reached the climax of his writing career in the Roaring 20’s. Fitzgerald’s historic, fictitious classic, The Great Gatsby, was set in the prime of the Jazz Age, in and around New York City, the hub of social and material wealth, when morality was the least concern of the general public. Mobsters roamed the streets. Bootleggers filled drugstores with prohibited liquor. Women’s hair got shorter along with their hem lines. Fitzgerald portrayed the immorality…

I wrote this song because the story Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald was probably my favorite story that I read for this class. Even when I was first reading it I had thought of how the relationship between Judy and Dexter would be perfect to make a song out of. The story overall has many different elements portraying the average idea of the American Dream. Fitzgerald used the life of Dexter to show the ideas of making your own fortune, the excitement and sadness of young love, and being…