"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything." This is how Fitzgerald spoke about his lover, wife and muse, Zelda. It could be said that Francis Scott Fitzgerald loved too much, that his love for his wife Zelda and the destructive lifestyle they lived is actually what killed him. But he wouldn't have had it any other way, for he never wanted to live to be one hundred, to have great grandchildren or quietly retire. Burning the candle at both ends and squeezing all the life out of every moment, Fitzgerald's life was the embodiment of the idealistic jazz age. .
"Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves, that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives, experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories each time in a new disguise maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen." (Fitzgerald, 1958).
Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1886. His own name reflected a nostalgic view of American aristocracy for he was after the famous Francis Scott Key, who wrote the Star Spangled Banner, and whom the Fitzgerald family had a distant relation to. His parents wee poor and longed for any connect to greatness. His father drank away his sorrows and his mother was the daughter of Irish immigrants trying to prove themselves in America and create a life for themselves (Bruccoli, 1994). .
After losing two of her children to disease, his mother, Mollie, spoiled him and showed him off, dressing him in suits and having him sing and recite poetry.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald was a novelist and short story writer who wrote mainly of the jazz age. While considered among the best American authors today, F. Scott Fitzgerald was not highly regarded during his life. ...
In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is portrayed as an individual who strives to achieve the American Dream through acts that would otherwise corrupt a common person in the 1920's. ... The Great Gatsby is, to the most part, an autobiography of F. Scott Fitzgerald himself. ... Scott Fitzgerald, the man and the writer, one must be familiar with the idea of doubleness. ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota on September the 24th, 1896 to Edward Fitzgerald, a failed furniture salesman and Mary McQuilan. ... At the same time as writing his novels, Fitzgerald was prolific as a magazine story writer and he had a great following as, unlike many of the writers of his time, he connected with his audience. ... INSPIRATIONS Many of F. ... The high class Americans of the 1920's inspired Fitzgerald to write of characters such as Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby who does find wealth in his life and achieves the "American Dream" but to him it is hollow and...
This is easily shown to us in the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. ... In conclusion F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the symbols of: Daisy's Green light, Gatsby's wild parties, and the "Eyes of Doctor T. ... Scott Fitzgerald is one of the greatest writers in American history. ...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. His name, interestingly enough, was derived from his distant relative, Francis Scott Key, the composer of "The Star Spangled Banner". Fitzgerald would live in St. Paul and then New York until his father lost his jo...