Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 to an upper-middle-class family to an upper-middle-class family. Under the financial aid of his relative, he began his college life in Princeton university and firmly dedicated himself into literary. He wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club, the Nassau Lit, and the Princeton Tiger. He also was involved in the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, which ran the Nassau Lit. During his college years, four of the University's clubs sent him bids, and he chose the University Cottage Club known as "the 'Big Four' that was most committed to the ideal of the fashionable gentleman." Mizner (1972), p. 29 The club is where he developed his literary create skills and influenced him a lot. However, his college life wasn’t going well. He joined in the football team and was cut in the first day of practice. He found a troupe and wrote many scripts for the plays and the troupe became famous. In 1915, the troupe toured around US and the comedy named the evil eyes. Unfortunately, he was prohibited to tour with the troupe together because of his low academic scores. In the spring of 1917, the U.S government declared to join in the World War one. In the same year, Fitzgerald dropped out of school to join the Army. Because of the concern that he might die …show more content…
The sale was low at first since people didn’t discover the abstruse meaning of it under the plot, but soon people found the value of it. In the same year, Fitzgerald became a notorious alcoholic for his extraordinarily heavy drinking. What’s worse, his wife was found to have schizophrenia and she was sent into the mental hospital. The expensive cost of his wife’s medical care and his daughter’s school fee compelled him to give up his ambitions of writing temporarily and relocated to Hollywood. Because of the discontent of the alterations of his creations by the directors, he drank more which undermined his health