Satire In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F.Scott Fitzgerald was an early American writer that was born in the late 1800’s. Fitzgerald supported himself at an early age as a writer. Fitzgerald wrote a lot of short stories and novels. Some of the short stories he wrote were, “The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire. Some the stories he wrote that are famous are, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, The Camel’s Back” and the Last of the Bellas”. The first novel he wrote was xxxxxxxxx and the 2nd novel he wrote was called “The Beautiful and Damned”. The Beautiful and Damned is about a marriage in trouble. This novel gave Fitzgerald, wealth and the want to achieve more in the 1920’s. Later in time the 1920’s was called the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald wrote, “it was an age of art, it was the age of success, and it was age of satire. …show more content…

“The Great Gatsby” is one of the most perfect novels written according XXXX. Fitzgerald thought of himself as a failure. He turned into a drunk and battled with depression. After dealing with both alcohol and depression for 2 years, he started writing what be known as his last novel called, “The Love of the Last Tycoon, in1939. Fitzgerald only completed about half of it before he died at the age of 44. Jane Austen, is known as one of the greatest writers in English history. She is famous for writing novels like, “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility”, but she wrote many other