... 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 ... 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 ... const...

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... Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby perfectly illuminates the American life of the Jazz Age. It stoof the test of time and has earned the distinction as one of the truly great American novels. "No writer has more closely personified the glamour and heartbreak of the American dream... 'not just the American dream, but the human dream,'" ("Fitzgerald ... James Gatz was always ambitious." He left his family at the earliest opportunity and invented a new history and persona for himself," ("Fitzgerald" 37). Although Gatsby belongs to the high society, he never quite fits in. He always feels so...

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• Grade Level: High School