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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Personal Life
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Died on December 21, 1940, Los Angeles, California, United States
Fitzgerald was the only son of an unsuccessful, aristocratic father and an energetic, provincial mother.
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Half the time he thought of himself as the heir of his father’s tradition, which included the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner."
Francis Scott Key, after whom he was named, and half the time as “straight 1850 potato-famine Irish.”
He had typically ambivalent American feelings about American life, which seemed to him at once vulgar and dazzlingly promising.
Time place
He lived in Buffalo, New York in the first decade of his childhood
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minesota in1896
He lived in a short time in Siracusa, New York
When he was 15 years old he went to a prestigious high school in Hackensack, Nueva Jersey
Work
The Great Gatsby
Characters:
- Jay Gatsby
- Nick Carraway
- Daisy Buchanan
- Tom Buchanan
- Myrtle Wilson
- Meyer Wolfsheim
- Jordan Baker
- Michaelis
- Dan Cody
- Henry Gatz
- George B. Wilson
Plot: Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier.
Great Gatsby Themes
- The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
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Novels:
- The Great Gatsby
- The Beautiful and damned
- This Side of Paradise
- Tender is the Night
- The Love of the Last Tycoon
Influence
The dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol.