... class, are the only ones who can "live forever" because they have a life full of leisure and without stress to make them age. Daisy seems to be partially based on Fitzgerald's wife. In his article, "Fitzgerald as Gatsby", Davis writes, "The ambition that ... Davis). The author and his character both attended a prestigious university but failed to graduate, then enlisted in the army, where they each met their "golden girl" (Davis). Although both Gatsby and Fitzgerald achieved financial success, the motivation for acquiring their fortune was their love for a woman who represented wealth .....

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The two decades between World War I and World War II were a golden age of American fiction. Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. He was once credited by T. S. Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted ... world, from over night success to excessive hedonism. So he could vividly depict the mysterious and desirous wealth of Gatsby and unfolded before our eyes a blazing picture of the jazz age. However, what ...

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... became popular, and the automobile was widely distributed. However, the most prominent symbol of the twenties was the wealth of most Americans, and the high-society lifestyle. It was "an age of a consumption ethic that was needed to provide markets for the new commodities that streamed from the production lines" (Sheldon 1). Materialism, or the theory or attitude that physical well-being ... work he could join this charmed circle, and he wrote about other ambitious youths and young men obsessed with sharing the special magic of the rich" (Adventures, 486). At the age of twenty-four, aft...

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