The author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, has conveyed many of his own life events into this book. This book portrays the life of him and many other people he has met in his life along the way. If the reader was unfamiliar with Fitzgerald and his life they wouldn’t understand the connections. But to the experienced reader they are quite noticeable.
In the beginning of the book, the reader is first introduced to the Buchanan’s daughter, Pammy. Pammy is a direct relation to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s daughter, Scotty.
In the book, Pammy is cared for by Nannies and is seldom with her parents (Fitzgerald
117).This is the same way Scotty was raised, Fitzgerald and his wife were quite the party goers, and hardly had time care for or spend time with their daughter.
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Though this may seem like simple detail, Fitzgerald also attended an Ivy league school,
Princeton University (Huse 3). Another minor detail that relates the two is their drive to become successful. Gatsby says after he met Daisy, he was determined to live a life of wealth. Ever since Fitzgerald was a young man he aspired to become wealthy (Huse
8).
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The most interesting correlation between the two is alcohol. Jay Gatsby is a major bootlegger, but refuses to drink alcohol. Alcohol is illegal at the time of the book, but this is not why Gatsby refuses. Gatsby met a 50 year old yacht man when he was a young boy on Lake Superior, Minnesota. Dan Cody lived a luxurious lifestyle full of liquor and women, he was an alcoholic. Later on we find out Cody dies and leaves his fortune to Jay, but a woman manages to get most of it. After Dan Cody’s death Jay has refused alcohol (Fitzgerald 99101).
Fitzgerald was the exact opposite, he was an avid drinker and party goer.
There are many other slight comparisons in the book but these are the most important to the novel. Fitzgerald conveyed himself through the main characters