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F. Scott Fitzgerald/ The Great Gatsby

             Scott Fitzgerald put facets of himself and his life into many of his works. By using his knowledge and experiences he was better able to develop characters and setting, and put personal emotion into his work. Many things from his novel, The Great Gatsby paralleled things from his life.
             Fitzgerald used himself and people in his life to characterize people in the novel. He based a lot about the character Gatsby on himself. Fitzgerald wanted to be a war hero in World War, so he made Gatsby a war hero in the novel. Gatsby worked on Dan Cody's yacht after Daisy married Tom. This parallels Fitzgerald working on a boat when Zelda broke off their engagement. Fitzgerald might have used his parents as an inspiration for Dan Cody. They helped him be a part of the upper class by sending him to a private school full of wealthy children and telling him how people of the upper class act. Dan Cody educated Gatsby on the mannerisms of the upper class. Fitzgerald based the character Daisy on his wife Zelda. He characterized Daisy as rich and popular, like Zelda was. The two were engaged, but Fitzgerald first had to prove he could support her. Daisy dated Gatsby, but wasn't allowed to marry him because he wasn't rich. Fitzgerald put some of Zelda's own words into the novel. She said that she hoped her baby would be a beautiful little fool, and he made Daisy say this in the Novel. Fitzgerald could understand what these characters' emotions would be and how they would act in the situations he put them in better because he based them on the people he knew. In turn, this helped him to develop the characters better.
             Fitzgerald used familiar places and scenery from his life to help him with setting in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's father lived in Minnesota, and Gatsby grew up in Minnesota. He used his knowledge of how people behave there to characterize people from the same place in the novel.
            
            


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1. An autobiographical portrayal of F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby, in The Great Gatsby

... ) fails to sustain them in their desperate hour. The Great Gatsby embodies the failure of romantic idealism. The hero achieves a great deal, but he loses the individual qualities that defined him at the beginning of the book and ends, as he lived, essentially alone" (Meyers, 343). One of the dominant themes of The Great Gatsby was surely one of the prevailing themes of Scott Fitzgerald's life. Jay Gatsby became love-stricken and despite rejection, dedicated his entire ... be expressed by someone who had actually endured such feelings. For in The Great Gatsby, "Fitzgerald uses fiction to ...

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2. Fitzgerald and Gatsby

... to impress Daisy ("The Great Gatsby- 1). "They both represent a dramatization of the false dream of money, which Fitzgerald had been fascinated with all his life- ("Structure of The Great Gatsby- 1). Daisy Buchanan is actually a combination of Fitzgerald's wife Zelda and his first girlfriend Ginevra King (H, Nicole 1). Daisy is "Gatsby's Golden Girl' who falls into a familiar pattern for Fitzgerald of lovely, delicate, and romantic' but essentially parasitic and emotionally frigid- ("F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Character Analyses ... his very sentiment' creates a kind of absurd...

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3. Nick Carraway and the American Dream

The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest stories in American literature. F Scott Fitzgerald relates to his story because he enjoys drinking and entertainment. The great Gatsby was also based in the 1920s the same time the story was published. F Scott Fitzgerald uses his own life in the great Gatsby and he directly relates to the characters In the story. Through an examination of themes and plot summary F Scott Fitzgerald reveals how his life directly relates to the story. In the Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American dream ... as well as appearance vs. reality. These are the und...

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4. Fitzgerald's Life - A Reflection in Jay Gatsby

A great deal of the adulterous and scandalous behavior described in The Great Gatsby is reflective of F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal life at the time in which he wrote the novel. The Great Gatsby, a novel written by Fitzgerald, includes many autobiographical elements of the author's life. On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story about disillusioned love between a man and a woman. However, the novel also portrays the American Dream of the 1920's and how it begins to crumble, much like what was happening in ... Fitzgerald's real world. Fitzgerald explored many ... ...

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5. The Great Gatsby

... literature selection, I prepared myself for a long, dull read. However, after finishing only a few pages of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I was pleasantly surprised and I could not put the novel down. Fitzgerald is an amazing writer who, in my opinion, should be respected as one of the finest. F. Scott Fitzgerald, named after the late Francis Scott Key, was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota to ordinary parents. When he ... one week after the publishing, Zelda and F. Scott settled in St. Paul and had a son named Scottie in 1921. The family later moved to Great ...

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6. Failures Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

... be considered heretical by many, but there are those who agree; Francis Scott Fitzgerald would be one. In his book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald touches upon the lower parts of the social spectrum, where most of the Dream lives on. During the discussion of the lower classes, Fitzgerald connects them ultimately with failure, telling us morbid tales of the "American Nightmare-. In The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald uses the lower class characters and their failures to prove that ... the conceptual American Dream is a belief that doesn't truly function. Fitzgerald uses the characte...

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7. Fitzgerald's Personal Background Paralleled with the Characters in The Great Gatsby

... Paralleled with the Characters in The Great Gatsby As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920's, he used a variety of sources to develop the setting, themes and characters. Since Fitzgerald lived through the corrupt era of the 1920's he is able to lend authenticity in his portrayal of the materialism and deceit among the characters of his novel. Fitzgerald was influenced by the novel, The Waste Land by C.F. Elliot (Richard Lehan "Sugar Lumps- 95). The Waste Land ... change (Lehan "Sugar Lumps- 95). Elliot portrays a world, morally falling apart with no principle to ...

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8. Great Gatsby

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9. The Great Gatsby

Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Nick Carraway's descriptions of Jay Gatsby to make Gatsby into the embodiment of the American Dream's corruption. The Great Gatsby is widely accepted as F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest piece of work. The novel is an almost perfect artistic creation, which is perhaps the single most American novel of its time. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses The Great Gatsby as the vehicle by which he offers the central concerns of his writing career and much of the United State's life as a nation ... to the world. These ... ...

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10. F. Scott Fitzgerald Vs. The Great Gatsby

... became prosperous, Daisy had already married Tom. Nick is the narrator of the story. Fitzgerald uses Nick to convey his thoughts about himself, "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby who represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn." (The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, pg.6) Nick carries Fitzgerald's honest side. Lastly, there is the character of Tom Buchanan. Though not as obvious as Nick ... and Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows himself in Tom. Tom is used to represent Fitzgerald's brutality. Tom is everything corrupt ... ...

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