How Did F Scott Fitzgerald Write The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 son to Edward Fitzgerald and Marie McQuillan. His father failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture in St.Paul so he became a salesman for Procter & Gamble in upstate New York. After his father got dismissed from his job they went back to St.Paul to live in the comfort of Fitzgerald's mother's inheritance. When Scott went to school in St.Paul Academy he wrote his first writing which was a detective story that came out on the school newspaper, at the age of twelve. During his 15-17 years of age, he attended a school called Newman it was a Catholic prep school in New Jersey where he met Father Sigourney Fay who encouraged Scott's ambition for writing. Scott would neglect his studies to only do writing, he would write scripts and lyrics for Princeton Triangle Club musicals and was also part of the Princeton’s Tiger humor magazine and the Nassau Literary Magazine. Since Scott wasn’t doing his studies and focusing too much on his

Raphael, The Fitzgeralds spent the winter of 1924-1925 in Rome where he revised The Great Gatsby. “The Great Gatsby” marked a striking advance in Fitzgerald’s technique, utilizing a complex structure and a controlled narrative point of view. Fitzgerald’s achievement received critical praise, but sales of Gatsby were disappointing, but the stage and movie rights brought additional income. Fitzgerald went to Hollywood alone in the summer of 1937 with a six-month Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screenwriting contract at $1,000 a week. He would receive his only screen credit for adapting “Three Comrades”, later his contract was renewed for a year at $1,250 a week. He earned $91,000 from MGM it was a great deal of money during the late Depression years when a new Chevrolet coupe cost $619, but although Fitzgerald paid off most of his debts, he wasn’t able to save any