Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald’s life began on Sept. 24, 1896, in Minnesota(de Koster 13). He went to school at St. Paul Academy and also in Hackensack, New Jersey at the Newman School. Fitzgerald wrote for the Nassau Literary Magazine and the Princeton Tiger and wrote scripts and lyrics for Princeton Triangle Club musicals while going to Princeton(Bruccoli). Fitzgerald wasn’t the brightest man. He was on academic probation and wasn’t expected to graduate so he went into the army without graduating with a degree(Mangum 1369). While in the army Fitzgerald’s passion for writing increased greatly(“F. Scott Fitzgerald”) but no matter how many novels and short stories he wrote, Fitzgerald was never satisfied. Fitzgerald grew up in a poor home. Recalling his past, he said:

“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves-that’s the truth. We have two or three great and moving 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 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)

Fitzgerald related many of his stories to himself. He said in “One Hundred False Starts” that:

Fitzgerald experienced criticism left and right. “The central question about Fitzgerald's work is probably a question about its maturity of perception”(Mizener 157). His views on certain subjects and his life cannot be ignored in Fitzgerald’s stories because “the connections are too intimate”(157). One critic, Glenway Wescott, said that he was “our darling, our genius, our fool”(157). On the other hand, Wescott points out:

Fitzgerald’s mother, Mollie, was literally insane. She embarrassed him and in many ways made her son unpopular. Mollie was shabby and didn’t care about her looks. She was critical and “...her attempts to spoil him strengthened distaste for her(“F. Scott Fitzgerald” 15). Fitzgerald finally got out on his house when he went off to Princeton for College. Fitzgerald met the first love of his life during Christmas break at the St. Paul Country Club., Ginevra King. Fitzgerald had finally found someone he could devote himself to, but it didn’t last long. He wrote her letters about his devotion to her, but whenever Ginevra replied with the same feelings Fitzgerald “struggled to believe her”(Lutz 14). He asked her if he could go to her sophomore prom, but Ginevra rejected it because her mother couldn’t be there to chaperone. Fitzgera

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