The Great Gatsby :: The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

I. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, grew up in an upper-middle class family where he enjoyed the traditions of the upper classes, but not the financial ability to uphold those practices. Fitzgerald acquired his fame, or so overnight, with the publication of his first book, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. His extensive career began with the committal to writing of stories for mass-circulation magazines, much(prenominal) as The Saturday Evening Post. That same year, he married Zelda Sayre, who subsequently became one his major influences on his writing, along with literature, Princeton, and alcohol. In the summer of 1924, Fitzgerald wrote The long Gatsby, a novel about the the Statesn dream. This novel was written in Fitzgeralds own date. The reader is able to see his insight and artistic right in the way that which the novel is composed. He brings forth the values that he embraced at least partially in his own life, such as materialism and the magic of wealth, which are clearly placed in the characters of The corking Gatsby. The novel is almost a paradox of his own biography a unique materialism in which men attempt to create rapture from material achievement. The novel received the most striking criticalappraisal, practiced as predicted by Fitzgerald. This honorary event marked the climax of his fame, however, his spirit faded from then on. With the illness of his wife, he reflected his experiences in his further work, such as Tender Is the Night. Some other examples of his work include The fine and Damned and The Love of the Last Tycoon. At the age of forty-four, Fitzgerald dies of a ticker attack. Since his death, critics have come to see his work as a aspect of the American culture and of The Twenties, a noteworthy representation of his pot that is saturated with meaning today. II. The story of Gatsby takes place in the 1920s, a time that began with the closing of the bloodiest conflict the world had ever witnessed. T he European society had suffered spiritually from the effects of World War I, yet life in America became a time of material demand. The twenties are best know as a decade when American business was riding gamey and increases in productivity brought hundreds of new products within the reach of the average consumer. The widespread impact of the stock market downturn heightened the popular view of the splendor of the economy during the 1920s.