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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald. Biography. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Although Fitzgerald’s father went bankrupt, Fitzgerald still played with the rich kids in town. This situation would later inform his fiction.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald

  2. Biography • F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. • Although Fitzgerald’s father went bankrupt, Fitzgerald still played with the rich kids in town. • This situation would later inform his fiction. • His awareness of his situation sharpened during his years at Princeton, where he studied from 1913 to 1917.

  3. Though he accepted a commission from the U.S. Army, he never saw combat. • During WWI, Fitzgerald was stationed near Montgomery, Alabama, where he began revising what became his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920). • While in Alabama, he met the love his life, Zelda Sayre, who would gain fame in her own right.

  4. Fitzgerald’s early literary successes made him and Zelda celebrities of the Jazz Age– a term he coined. • During the 1920s, Zelda served as his editor, confidante, and rival. Their appetite for excess made them notorious in an age when excess was the norm. • In 1924 the Fitzgeralds moved to France with their daughter, where they fell among a group of American expatriate artists whom the writer Gertrude Stein christened “The Lost Generation.”

  5. Ernest Hemingway with a crowd

  6. In 1925, The Great Gatsby was published, which has become Fitzgerald’s most enduring work. • Fitzgerald would not publish another novel for nine years. • In 1932, Zelda suffered a breakdown from which she never fully recovered. She spent most of her remaining days in mental institutions.

  7. He published the novel Tender Is the Night in 1934, implicitly acknowledging his wife’s mental illness and his own alcoholism. • Fitzgerald sold stories to The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire to keep financially afloat. • He began work on his novel The Last Tycoon, but Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in 1940 before finishing the novel.

  8. Time Period • “The Roaring 20s” • One could buy a Ford for $290. • The Volstead Act became effective in 1920 and made the sale of alcohol illegal. This is also known as Prohibition. • Speakeasies, flappers, gangsters, and crime were all prevalent. • The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

  9. Fitzgerald’s phrase “The Jazz Age” denoted an era of ragtime, jazz, stylish automobiles, and uninhibited young women with bobbed hair and short skirts. • “It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.”

  10. The Great Gatsby • Published in 1925 • The Great Gatsby is a tragic love story, a mystery, and a social commentary on American life. • The book concerns the wasteful lives of four wealthy characters as observed by their acquaintance, narrator Nick Carraway. • Like Fitzgerald, Nick is from Minnesota and questions– even while participating in– high society.

  11. Themes • Themes include: • The corruption of the American dream • Materialism • Reality versus illusion • Self-discovery • Carelessness/violence

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