F Scott Fitzgerald's Influence On The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a famous American author whom changed American literature forever with his best known work, The Great Gatsby. He is considered by many one of the greatest authors of the Twentieth Century. Proceeding generations of American authors have been educated with his works of intuition and innovation throughout history. “American short-story writer and novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his turbulent personal life and his famous novel The Great Gatsby.” (biography.com 1). Fitzgerald’s lavish and exuberant lifestyle is truly enthralling, and certainly had an influence on how and why he wrote his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. On September 26, 1896, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Paul academy, when he was thirteen years old. He wrote a short mystery story in the school newspaper. When he turned fifteen years old, Fitzgerald was sent to the prestigious, Catholic, preparatory Newman School, in New Jersey. Proceeding his graduation to the school, Fitzgerald decided to stay in New Jersey and attend Princeton University. At Princeton, Fitzgerald dedicated himself to his writing and literary works. He began writing for the Nassau Liberty Magazine, the Princeton Tiger humor magazine, and Triangle Club musicals. However, due to Fitzgerald’s total dedication to literature, his grades began to decline resulting in him being put on academic probation, then resulting in him dropping out. Although F. Scott Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton in the end, his schooling, throughout his youth, introduced and paved his way into the world of American

Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous works, The Great Gatsby, is still read, studied, and cherished by many people throughout the world today. Fitzgerald was inspired to write this legendary novel by multiple factors. The main factor is that the simple setting and plotline is strikingly similar to events in Fitzgerald’s real life. Example: Jay Gatsby moves to New York to try and win the heart of Daisy Buchanann by trying to get rich (in which he eventually succeeds through bootlegging) after he comes back from serving the army, just like how F. Scott Fitzgerald moves to New York to try and win the heart of Zelda Sayre by trying to get rich (which he eventually succeeds through literature) after he comes back from serving the army. F. Scott Fitzgerald was inspired to write The Great Gatsby mainly by the events which occurred in his own life, which are evident by the example provided