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). Fitzgerald also adds, "My father has a diamond has big as the Ritz Carlton Hotel"(916). Many people thought that "A Diamond as Big as Ritz" made fun of rich people. Fitzgerald responded to the complaints by saying, "It was designed utterly for my own amusement. I was in a mood characterized by a perfect craving for luxury."(Pace "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz.") Fitzgerald's life started down hill with his bitterness and his undeveloped sight of right and wrong. He urbanized a bad sense of morality and was full of moral corruption(ENC 190). Not only did Fitzgerald's childhood destroy him but the women in his life brought him more grief than he could handle. .
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. Fitzgerald became extremely angry and bitter about the situation. Ginevra broke it off with Fitzgerald later on that year(14). Then in 1917 while he was serving his country he met the second love of his life, Zelda("F.
F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to be one of the three most important authors to write in between the two great wars (Magill 1032). ... F. ... Fitzgerald tried to base his writings on aspiration and idealism defining true American character ( F Scott Fitzgerald Centenary 3). ...
Dreaming The Impossible Dream: An autobiographical portrayal of F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby, in The Great Gatsby Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald, born September 24, 1896 in St. ... F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre were married on April 3, 1920. ... Fitzgerald held Tommy Hitchcock in such high regard, that he inspired Scott's portrait of Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband in The Great Gatsby. ...
The writer who summed up an era Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. ... F. Scott Fitzgerlad created his own legends. ... When looking upon Fitzgerald's novels you can see an insight into his own personal life. ... Over all Francis Scott Key Fitzgeralds books and shorts stories were able to teach future generations about an era they knew nothing about until the opened one of his books. ...
Throughout literary history, critics have discussed the greatest authors of all time. C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, and Harper Lee are noteworthy to mention but so are F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Crowned as two of the most iconic American authors, Fitzgerald and Hemingway were rivals du...
