The Great Gatsby Research Paper

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is known as one of the most famous American writers in the twentieth century. Although Fitzgerald has many other works of short-stories and novels, but his most well known novel is The Great Gatsby. He helped show how the world was during the Jazz Age which is more commonly known as the Roaring Twenties. Many journalists classified him as a cultural artifact and a symbol for the “lost generation”. Many have also said that he symbolized the extravagance and the decline of his generation. F. Scott Fitzgerald was the third child-and only son-born to Edward Fitzgerald and Mary ‘Mollie’ McQuillan on September 24,1896 (Doreski). His father, Edward Fitzgerald built the American Rattan and was the president of Willow

His first work was made in the late 1910, he made an “outline chart of my life” and The Thoughtbook of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Doreski). When he was in secondary school his works began to appear in his schools Now and Then, his works then were revisions of his father’s Civil War tales (2-5). While he was stationed in Montgomery, Al, he began writing his first novel, This Side of Paradise was published in 1920 (F. Scott Fitzgerald). The book this side of paradise was the first book to make him famous, it opened new doors for him such as popular magazines and top paying magazines (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”). It described life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned, postwar generation (“F.Scott Fitzgerald”).Flappers and Philosophers, published in 1920, is part of a group of eight short-stories written by Francis (“F.Scott Fitzgerald”). In 1922, his novel is about an artist and his wife who are ruined by their dissipated way of life, The Beautiful and the Damned, was published (“F.Scott FItzgerald”). His other work, Tales of the Jazz Age, told what life was really like for people in the Jazz Age (“F.Scott Fitzgerald”). In 1925 his infamous novel—The Great Gatsby—which was about a bootlegger, Jay Gabby, whose obsessive dream of wealth and lost love is destroyed by a corrupt reality was made (“F.Scott Fitzgerald”). All Sad Young Men was published in 1926 and it depicted how he

Zelda was the daughter of a Supreme Court Judge (Doreski). Fitzgerald and Zelda went to New York together, so he could become instantly successful and to marry Zelda. He acquired an advertising job that only paid ninety dollars a month. As a result, Zelda broke off the engagement. Fitzgerald went back to St. Paul to finish writing a novel he started in Princeton (Doreski). In the spring of 1920, it was published and started to become widely recognized. Around that same time, Francis and Zelda moved back to New York City and were married at St. Patrick Cathedral on April 3,1920 (F. Scott Fitzgerald). Ring Lardner, American columnists and short-story writer notorious for his sarcastic works about athletics, the theater, and marriages, called them the prince and princess of their generation (“F.Scott Fitzgerald”). After the birth of their daughter, Francis Scott ‘Scottie’ in 1920, the new family spent time in Paris and the French Riviera (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”). As Fitzgerald became older he attempted to achieve his dream of having a rich American life. As a result, his later years became chaotic and sorrowful. As Zelda suddenly started to practice ballet all night and day, Francis began to worry about his wife's increasing insanity(F.Scott Fitzgerald). From the stress about his wife and his progressing financial troubles, he started to drink excessively (DOreski). Sometime during the 1930’s, Zelda had a