Portraying Life Through Their Works Ernest Hemingway and Francis F. Scott Fitzgerald are some of the most renowned American authors. Their works are recognized nationwide and popularly read in high school English class rooms. Many of their works portray their life. They model characters after themselves and people they knew in their life time. Within their works and through analyzation readers can understand the life and society of the 1920’s, which many of their books are set in.…
whirlwind character in The Great Gatsby that represents ultimate wealth and beauty. She seems to be the figure created only by the wild imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In reality, Daisy is based on two of the most influential women in Fitzgerald’s life: Ginevra King and Zelda Fitzgerald. These women are the two great loves of Fitzgerald and play the dominant role in creating Daisy Buchanan. The controversial role of Daisy shows the challenges of a woman in high society along and the…
class. Out of this came the era of the modernist movement pioneered by authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, who came to be an upper class man himself, changed America with his insights into the shallow lives of upper class society. In many of his novels and short stories he calls to attention the petty and skewed morality that became the new American lifestyle. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was…
fashions entered the American life-- a decade that confounded the older generation, and fascinated novelists. One of most well-known writers of this period is F. Scott Fitzgerald, who both observed these times with a writer’s eye and lived them with abandon. Perhaps because the entire mood of the decade was one of living in the moment, Fitzgerald used…
1920’s. Jazz music, new attitudes, and notably, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was born. Called one of the greatest American novels of all time, The Great Gatsby tells a story that connects to some of our deepest desires: having the perfect relationship, millions of dollars, and the finest material things. Fitzgerald’s story of unreachable aspirations has been read by millions, leading to questions about what Fitzgerald meant in each symbol and character. Countless inquisitive readers…
to America, especially during the roaring twenties when that dream had seemed to become a reality for many. The American Dream was very instilled in Dutch sailors who came to America hopeful of attaining a fresh, better start, just like Scott and Zelda in ‘Z’ when they move to New York and Paris. Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby’ represented the American Dream himself, shown by his success. Individual dreams are also important through the novel which is shown in how Gatsby dreams of attaining Daisy,…
greed. F. Scott Fitzgerald some how magnificently managed to include all of these components into his writing. F. Scott Fitzgerald was truly a masterful literary artist. Reading his book The Beautiful and Damned was like walking through an art exhibit. All of his assorted technics and elements were flawlessly displayed, and readers should enjoy walking down every aisle. “F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald was…
During the roaring twenties, an author by the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald became widely popular through his writing and works. Fitzgerald 's most known and popular work is The Great Gatsby, which was published in 1925 during the height of the roaring twenties, which is clearly seen in The Great Gatsby. Another event during that time that was a major influence on the book was World War I. Fitzgerald was living in a hostile world because of the tensions of WWI, as well as soldiers that were…
The 1920’s- the age of music, dance, and social prosperity. F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author during the 1920’s was thrown right into the life of partying where he ultimately falls in love with the girl he will never fully have, his golden girl. The “golden girl” is the ideal woman of Fitzgerald’s dreams, which he also could never fully possess. Throughout his stories he relates the female characters to the golden girl he wanted in real life. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “golden girl” can be seen as…
people who are the origin of all troubles. Fitzgerald holds a traditional value that man shall offer woman support and protection; in exchange, woman submit obedience and respect to man in courtship. Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda Sayer, much to his dismay, was the opposite of his ideal image woman. Zelda was an icon of the flappers and an artist and author on her own right. One that live her own live with little reliance on the man, or at least did not give Fitzgerald the respect he deserved. In…