How Did Fitzgerald's Life Affect The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald In Literature

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the third child of Edward and Mary McQuinlan Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald’s lineage can be traced back to his namesake Francis Scott Key, the composer of “The Star Spangled Banner”. Fitzgerald was so confident that he went so far as to claim that even in childhood, he knew he was born to write and write he did. His writing affected literature in many major ways. Fitzgerald’s first published works were put in the Princeton humor magazine, the Tiger. He also wrote several more serious articles for the school’s Nassau Literary Magazine. Fitzgerald wrote a collection of stories titled “Flappers and Philosophers” which helped gain flappers their fame. He also wrote “Tales of the Jazz Age”, another set of assorted passages, which

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel narrated by Nick Carraway, who moved into a Long Island neighborhood next door to Jay Gatsby. Carraway is reluctantly drawn into Gatsby’s quest for the hand of Daisy Buchanan. In order to win Daisy back from her current husband, Tom Buchanan, Gatsby reinvents himself into what he thought Daisy desired. As a part of changing his life, Gatsby earns an entire fortune through various unknown methods. The novel comes to a close when Myrtle Wilson is involved in a collision with Gatsby and Daisy in which she dies. Myrtle’s husband comes for revenge and kills Tom, who sacrifices himself to save Daisy, who had been driving the car. By this time Daisy and her husband Tom had already fled the state and did not return to attend Gatsby’s funeral. “The Great Gatsby” represents a time of possibilities and freedom. But as Gatsby discovers, romantic visions of the past rarely contain real truth. Although the novel ends with a section about the nature of people, Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy serves as a warning against following the same