Francis Scott Fitzgerald, was mostly known as F. Scott Fitzgerald, he was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Francis was a novelist and short story writer. He is considered by many writers a very important author in the American history of literature. He got success mostly due to his third book, called The Great Gatsby. His story The Great Gatsby has even become required to read in schools, mostly in high school. He always had a unique romantic imagination, he even called it "a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life." He tried way too hard to be popular and instead made himself unpopular. The sad part of Francis's life is that his career as an author when he was alive wasn't recognized. He became famous after his death, Francis died of a …show more content…
Fitzgerald is also considered part of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Francis Fitzgerald lived his life having conflict with status, because he was a man whose greatest desire was to succeed as a writer and become a man with a high status. Fitzgerald's experiences with St. Paul's elite influenced a lot his life and way to see status. He desired a life full of wealth. He desperately wanted to reach acceptance from elites, but at the same time recognized the emptiness of living that way and with that social status, this is pretty notable in his writing. Works like "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby" reflects Fitzgerald's personal problem with social acceptance. For example in the "Rich Boy" he expresses his feeling of social status especially of the high class. "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless