F. Scott Fitzgerald had a very hard life where nothing went right for him. He took his failure in marriage, alcohol, and his war experience. He took all of his trauma and projected it all into his writing of The Great Gatsby and Gatsby's life.
The first thing Jay Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald have in common are their failures in relationships/marriages. F. Scott Fitzgerald fell in love with a woman named Zelda while he was stationed at war. When he asked her to marry him she told him no due to the fact he could not support her rich lifestyle. He projected that onto Gatsby by having him fall in love with a woman named Daisy that he could not be with because he was poor. Gatsby then spent the next five years trying to get Daisy back. He became rich and threw parties. When he got close to Daisy again he wanted her to tell her now husband Tom Buchanan, who constantly cheated on her, that she had never loved him because he was convinced that she didn't. During the commotion that is happening, he says ¨ and what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time¨ (Buchanan 131), which causes Daisy to stay with Tom and leave Gatsby, making him never get the love of his life.
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Fitzgerald was an alcoholic which ended up taking his life with an alcohol-induced heart attack. It was said that ¨It was indirectly due to Cody that gatsby drank so little¨ (Carraway 100). So, he made it so that someone close to Gatsby, Dan Cody, dies due to alcohol. Fitzgerald wanted Jay Gatsby to not drink to in a way make it feel like Fitzgerald wasn't such an alcoholic and showed his attempts at sobriety in Gatsby because he could never keep sober in his day-to-day