"In the end we are all just humans drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokeness."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Fitzgerald's Life While Writing The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby while he was living in Europe. His screenplay "The Vegetables" had just failed miserably and he had been paying the bills by writing short stories for magazines that sold merely because of his name; the content of the stories was nearly worthless ("Gatsby: 35 years Later"). Fitzgerald, once the socialite of New York, was deeply in debt and in very low spirits, due to both his lack of recent success and the knowledge of his wife affair with a famous airplane pilot ("F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer"). He had fallen from his original glory and was desperate to find a way back. It was out of this low state, that he penned The Great Gatsby, and his desperate search for truth and hope is found deeply embedded within every page.
Fitzgerald Found: Fitzgerald/Gatsby Comparison
It is pretty easy to see Fitzgerald's life through the character of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby represents Fitzgerald's accent to and decent from success. Fitzgerald was the "Gatsby" of New York City while he lived there. He threw the large parties, entertaining celebrities until all hours, and going to every major social event of the season("F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer"). While Gatsby simply enjoyed hosting and being admired from afar, however, Fitzgerald was the life of the party and loved the attention and praise anytime he could receive it, especially when he was drunk. Apparently he had a habit of going up to strangers when he was drunk and saying, "I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald. You've read my books. You've read "The Great Gatsby," haven't you? Remember?"("Gatsby: 35 years Later"). As Gatsby becomes increasingly obsessed with finding Daisy, he finds the most monetary success. Once he has her within his grasp, he ends up pushing her away because he is never content with how far he has come and is constantly dissatisfied with his life and his achievements. In the same way, as Fitzgerald became increasingly obsessed with becoming the next great American novelist, he became increasingly successful. Once he had achieved that fame and fortune, he squandered it, constantly dissatisfied with what he has done so far, obsessing over what he had yet to do.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby while he was living in Europe. His screenplay "The Vegetables" had just failed miserably and he had been paying the bills by writing short stories for magazines that sold merely because of his name; the content of the stories was nearly worthless ("Gatsby: 35 years Later"). Fitzgerald, once the socialite of New York, was deeply in debt and in very low spirits, due to both his lack of recent success and the knowledge of his wife affair with a famous airplane pilot ("F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer"). He had fallen from his original glory and was desperate to find a way back. It was out of this low state, that he penned The Great Gatsby, and his desperate search for truth and hope is found deeply embedded within every page.
Fitzgerald Found: Fitzgerald/Gatsby Comparison
It is pretty easy to see Fitzgerald's life through the character of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby represents Fitzgerald's accent to and decent from success. Fitzgerald was the "Gatsby" of New York City while he lived there. He threw the large parties, entertaining celebrities until all hours, and going to every major social event of the season("F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer"). While Gatsby simply enjoyed hosting and being admired from afar, however, Fitzgerald was the life of the party and loved the attention and praise anytime he could receive it, especially when he was drunk. Apparently he had a habit of going up to strangers when he was drunk and saying, "I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald. You've read my books. You've read "The Great Gatsby," haven't you? Remember?"("Gatsby: 35 years Later"). As Gatsby becomes increasingly obsessed with finding Daisy, he finds the most monetary success. Once he has her within his grasp, he ends up pushing her away because he is never content with how far he has come and is constantly dissatisfied with his life and his achievements. In the same way, as Fitzgerald became increasingly obsessed with becoming the next great American novelist, he became increasingly successful. Once he had achieved that fame and fortune, he squandered it, constantly dissatisfied with what he has done so far, obsessing over what he had yet to do.