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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream
In this essay I plan to discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald and how his life influenced his writings.
I am going to show how his life was connected to his fiction. Also I am going to talk
about Fitzgerald's main thematic issue in my favorite novel he wrote "The Great
Gatsby".
Fitzgerald was a writer during the roaring 20's. This period was also known as the
Jazz Age. The 1920's marked the high point of F. Scott Fitzgerald career he published
most all of his novels during this time. His novels and short stories "chronicled changing
social attitudes" during the 1920's (Fitzgerald 1).
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He was a
product of two "divergent traditions". His father was a southern gentlemen and his
mother's family in Fitzgerald's words "straight 1850 potato famine Irish"(Biography2).
His father was a salesman for Procter and Gamble. His mother also inherited money
from her father who was a successful wholesale grocer. Fitzgerald was raised in a
moderately wealthy family. The way Fitzgerald spoke about his childhood and early life
you would have thought differently. For instance at the beginning of one of Fitzgerald's
stories he wrote the rich "are different form you and me"(F. Scott1). He depicts this
world of the rich in novels such as "The Beautiful and Damned" and also "The Great
Gatsby". Fitzgerald in his early life was probably compared to Nick Carraway in wealth.
Fitzgerald family certainly not as rich as Gatsby or Tom Buchanan, but he did have more
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