The Great Gatsby Report

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul Minnesota. He was an american writer, who is famously known for his novel “The Great Gatsby”. Fitzgerald was enrolled at Princeton University in 1913, but because of ill health and low grades he left the university in 1915. His life was crestfallen until 1920 when he married his love Zelda Sayre. Soon after his marriage, they had their only child Frances Scott Fitzgerald. In 1922, Fitzgerald started writing his most well known novel “The Great Gatsby”. "The Great Gatsby" was first, and foremost, a reflection of Fitzgerald's life. He put pieces of himself into two of the book's major characters—Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire and namesake of the novel, and Nick Carraway, the first-person narrator. After World War I, when Fitzgerald's debut novel—"This Side of Paradise"— became a sensation and he became famous, he found himself among the glitterati that he had always wanted to join. But, it was not to last.

Nick goes across the bay to visit his cousin Daisy and her wealthy and brutish husband Tom Buchanan, who went to Yale with Nick. Daisy introduces Nick to Jordan Baker, a professional golfer. Over dinner, Nick learns that Tom is very arrogant and racist, remarking on the rise of the colored empire. Tom gets a phone call, and Jordan tells Nick that Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of George Wilson. Nick returns home and notices a figure standing on the pier and looking and reaching toward the green light, and Nick believes this is