The Great Gatsby Research Paper

Introduction
The Great Gatsby is one of the most excellent novel in the twenties century in America. It drew a picture of American people pursuing wealth, statute and pleasure of the Jazz Age. In this article, the relations between the writing background and The Great Gatsby would be explained. There are two parts in this article. The first part will analyze the historical background when The Great Gatsby was being created. And the second part will introduce Fitzgerald’ life experience and its reflections in The Great Gatsby.

The Historical background
(1) Social Changes and The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby was created in 1920s, that time was after the World War I and before the American economic collapse. Now, people always called it Jazz

In The Great Gatsby, car was also an important symbol and a critical clue. There are three main cars in the novel including Gatsby’ yellow Rolls-Royce, Daisy’ white sports car and Nick’ old Dodge. They all played important roles in several key plots. At the end of the novel, Daisy driven Gatsby’ Rolls-Royse and killed the Myrtle Wilson, which directly led to Gatsby’ death.
(4) The changing of women rights
With the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 that gave women the right to vote for the first time, women finally attained the political equality that they had so long been fighting for. This amendment together with new household appliances, made it possible for women to seek paid jobs.
Women’s financial independence made them prefer late marriage. For the first time women began to design their own image in American. In The Great Gatsby, Jordan was a representative of the new era woman. She had independent economic source and her own social status, and no longer need to rely on the man.
Fitzgerald’ Life experience with The Great

The relationship between Fitzgerald and Zelda went so dramatic that he once said, ‘Sometimes I don’t know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels.’ Fitzgerald entered the army as a second Lieutenant and while in training camp he met the beautiful girl who was to become his wife. This plot was the same as Gatsby first met Daisy in The Great Gatsby.
After Fitzgerald published This Side of Paradise and become famous, he and his wife indulged themselves and spent money without moderation. Zelda had always been bold and unconstrained. When Fitzgerald was focused on the creation of The Great Gatsby, she was extremely dissatisfied with it. Then she met a French pilot and even wanted to divorce with Fitzgerald. It made him felt upset and even offered to duel with the rival.
This misty and uncertain mood was also brought into The Great Gatsby, and made it a psychedelic charm in the novel. And Fitzgerald’ real marriage life just foreshadows the tragic end of Gatsby and Daisy’ love.