... he depended the money that magazines would pay him for his stories(Mangum "F. Scott Fitzgerald"). In one of Fitzgerald's short stories, "A Diamond as Big as Ritz" it shows how he longed for large amounts of money. He writes, "My father is by far the richest man in the world"(Fitzgerald 915). ... for Fitzgerald. In "Babylon Revisited" a man Charlie struggled with alcohol. He tried to stop so that he could get his life back together with his daughter( ). Fitzgerald's marriage was driving him to drink, which most likely caused him to write about it so often. He said in a letter to a ... 's...

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... other women in his novels. Kenneth Eble is quoted as saying, "the details of Gatsby's and Daisy's love affair all come from Fitzgerald's own experience delete [] [. . .]- (99). Fitzgerald advised his daughter, Scottie, to marry someone who follows a "calculated path stemming from a talent or money- (qtd. in Lehan "Careless People- 71). Fitzgerald felt his lack of money was why Ginevra married someone ... that he kept of the major events in his life [. . .]. So deep was his love for Ginevra King that fifteen years later he was writing about her in his Josephine stories, and twenty years ...

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... removed, Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star Spangle Banner ("A brief life of Fitzgerald- 1). The Fitzgeralds lived quite comfortably on Mary McQuillian's father's inheritance of $250,000. While hitting some hard times, his mother's name and the appearance of money is what had kept the Fitzgeralds in " ... literary magazines and publishers that he could have never before imagined. During the next four years, the Fitzgerald's had a daughter but spent most of their time partying, drinking, and reaping the benefits of their celebrity lifestyle. This eccentric lifestyle was paid for by...

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