The Great Gatsby :: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

I. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, grew up in an upper-middle class family where he enjoyed the traditions of the upper classes, but not the financial ability to uphold those practices. Fitzgerald acquired his fame, more or less overnight, with the publication of his first book, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. His extensive career began with the writing of stories for mass-circulation magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post. That same year, he married Zelda Sayre, who later became single his major influences on his writing, along with literature, Princeton, and alcohol. In the summer of 1924, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, a novel about the American dream. This novel was written in Fitzgeralds own time. The indorser is able to see his insight and artistic integrity in the way that which the novel is composed. He brings forth the values that he embraced at least partly in his own life, such as materialism and the magic of wealth, which are clear ly placed in the characters of The Great Gatsby. The novel is almost a problem of his own biography a unique materialism in which men attempt to create happiness from material achievement. The novel received the most inter-group communication criticalappraisal, just as predicted by Fitzgerald. This honorary event marked the climax of his fame, however, his reputation faded from then on. With the illness of his wife, he reflected his experiences in his push work, such as Tender Is the Night. Some other examples of his work include The Beautiful and Damned and The Love of the Last Tycoon. At the age of forty-four, Fitzgerald dies of a union attack. Since his death, critics have come to see his work as a reflection of the American culture and of The Twenties, a noteworthy representation of his people that is pure(a) with meaning today. II. The story of Gatsby takes place in the 1920s, a time that began with the closing of the bloodiest conflict the world had ever witnessed. The Eu ropean society had suffered spiritually from the effects of population War I, yet life in America became a time of material demand. The twenties are best known as a decade when American business was riding high and increases in productivity brought hundreds of new products within the reach of the average consumer. The widespread impact of the stock market downswing heightened the popular view of the importance of the economy during the 1920s.