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F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is best known for his work based on the jazz age has written novels such as “Tender Is the Night” and “The Great Gatsby.” He was born September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul Minnesota. He got married in 1920 to Zelda Sayre, who wrote the novel “Save Me the Waltz.” She died in 1948, just 8 years after her husband's death in 1940. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born into an upper-middle-class family. His father, Edward Fitzgerald was of an Irish and English ancestry. Edward Fitzgerald, moved to St. Paul from Maryland after the Civil War. Scott's mother, Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy in the grocery business. When Scott was 13 his very first piece …show more content…

This was the end of the Great Depression when jazz music and dance styles became very popular among people in the United States. The spread of jazz music began to broadcast on the radio at a large-scale in 1932. Women were also granted the right to vote and speak freely. The birth of jazz music is credited to African Americans, over time jazz music became more socially acceptable to the middle-class white Americans. It was at this time that many people were separated both physically and mentally because of their social …show more content…

Scott Fitzgerald. In the novel, money gives a person a lot of control. In the novel Jay Gatsby leaves Daisy for the war, she gets tired of waiting for Gatsby and decides to marry Tom Buchanan. This was mainly because he was very wealthy and Daisy was attracted to the upper-class lifestyle. Wealth also changes the type of lifestyle individuals live. When Nick the narrator first notices Gatsby, he finds that Gatsby throws a lot of parties. Gatsby's wealth is what allows him to live this type of exotic lifestyle. Wealth also controls the way people act as well. In the book, money makes Tom and Gatsby careless and they get the impression they can do whatever they wish. They felt that because they were rich they would be protected from any repercussions. As presented through the novel we can see that money doesn't buy happiness, Daisy's love for men with wealth brought her to what she thought was happiness, in reality, it causes her more

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