Abstract
The paper begins with a short history of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The paper explains that Fitzgerald used himself, his wife and others in his close circle on whom to fashion his characters. Fitzgerald sometimes based characters on the country, the United States, as a symbol of moral decay in society. The paper has reviews of each of the following books: "This Side of Paradise", "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night".

From the Paper
"Of all American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered by many critics and scholars to be unparalleled in the elegance and grace of his fiction. He wrote with a lyrical economy that elevates his work from pure storytelling to poetic beauty.

"This Side of Paradise"
Fitzgerald's first novel was groundbreaking in its candid portrayal of the behavior and thoughts of young people. One contemporary reviewer noted, "No one else has given us so real and intimate a study of college life, of the relationship at that age between boys and girls ... of the things young men in college think about and do." It tells the story of Amory Blaine's passage through adolescence and youth toward maturity. It explores his relationships with women with frankness that shocked the post-Victorian parental generation. His love interest, the beautiful Rosalind, tells him, "There used to be two kinds of kisses. First when girls were kissed and deserted; second when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted." This was a new facet in the sexual tension of the times, an early indication of the sexual revolution that was to come."

Tags:f, scott, fitzgerald, great, gatsby, this, side, of, paradise, tender, is, the, night, Zelda, Sayre, jazz, age

Abstract
This paper discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald as the chronicler of the Jazz Age, the 1920s, noting that this was a decade of change in American life with the public indulging itself in a number of ways after the hardships of World War I and before the even greater hardships they did not yet foresee in the Great Depression.

From the Paper
"The Twenties was a decade of exuberance, with a rising stock market that no one yet knew presaged a great and sudden fall. Of all the literary figures of the period, the one most associated with this decade was F. Scott Fitzgerald, a writer who chronicled the changes taking place with a critical eye, seeing both the strengths of the society of the time and its weaknesses and detailing both in his fiction. "

Tags:fitzgerald, twenties, chronicler

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This paper examines how F. Scott Fitzgerald experienced many different hardships, romances, and personal achievements. Most characters in the "The Great Gatsby" had some link to his past, which makes each character more dynamic. It explains how F. Scott Fitzgerald called upon all his personal knowledge and past experiences to write "The Great Gatsby."

From the Paper
"In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald used many of his own life experiences including his own yearnings and lost hopes (A&E Biography). Throughout Fitzgerald's life he met people in Great Neck, Long Island that would later become the characters in his elaborate novel that combine both truths and false pretenses that he lived. Mellow said that every scrap of experience, his own or borrowed from others; every insight, earned or overheard, was considered usable knowledge for his fictional pursuits (220). For instance, Mellow stated that nearly all of Gatsby's shady connections with bootlegging, sport scandals, and stock swindles were related to unnamed but clearly identifiable Great Neck residents(220). In the character Jay Gatsby similarities can be seen between Gatsby and Fitzgerald."

Tags:character, life

Abstract
This paper relates that F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald) was an Irish-American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer, who is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The author points out that Fitzgerald's protagonists are often reflections of the author and his wife Zelda -- heroes who are handsome, confident and predestined that blaze brilliantly before exploding and heroines who are beautiful, tempting and manipulative. The paper compares the couples from the two writings, Jay and Daisy of "The Great Gatsby" and Dexter and Judy of "Winter Dreams", who want greatness but end in misery.

From the Paper
"Both of these women were described as insensitive, unfaithful women, because both being involved in unsatisfactory marriages, they were having an affair with the male character, Jay Gatsby, respectively Dexter Green. Also Daisy was especially cruel when it came to significant issues. She ran over a woman and killed her, yet afterwards she simply went home and ate dinner, as nothing happened. She cared more about the heat than the person she murdered. Judy was heartless too when it came to the men who adored her."

Tags:zelda, dexter, daisy, jay, blazing

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This paper looks at the emergence of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a leader in the modernist movement of literature. It looks at the defining characteristics of modernism and how the uniqueness and newness of Fitzgerald's style of writing put him in the forefront of modernist writers. Fitzgerald's famous works of art and the characters within them are used to aptly illustrate Fitzgerald as one who spearheaded the modernist movement.

From the Paper
"Modernist literature is also the result of the writer seeking to save mankind from the "deadening features" of what became known as everyday life. The Modern artist, according to Paul Lauter, editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature, felt a need to "challenge and reinvigorate" the ever-growing urban, industrial society. (935) In order for this reinvigoration to be successful, new styles of writing were needed to express the new ideas and values. From this need, Modernism arose and became what one critic called a "tradition of the new" (935). However, more than anything, modernism meant breaking away from traditional responses and "predictable forms"."

Tags:this, side, of, paradise, the, great, gatsby, breaking, away, irony, disruptive, techniques

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This in depth research paper explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal battle with alcoholism as expressed through the character Charles Wales in the short story " Babylon Revisited " Charlie's history of drinking is intertwined within a basic plot summary, which focuses on the custody battle for his daughter. The paper also cites how medical science has examined the link between alcoholism and stress. Several paragraphs are devoted to a literature review of alcoholism recovery, and Charlie's own attempt to overcome his addiction. The reviewer concludes the paper by asserting that the plot is taken from actual events in Fitzgerald's life, and that the character Charlie Wales is a direct reflection of Fitzgerald.

From the Paper
"During his second dinner, Charlie further explains his one drink philosophy. He explains to a skeptical Marion "... I take that drink the liberal deliberately, so that the idea of alcohol won't get too big in my imagination. You see the idea?" (Fitzgerald 1313). Marion's response is succinctly "No". However, Stephanie Brown of the Stanford Alcohol Clinic would understand Charlie's idea. "Alcoholic thinking is the logic of explaining the one's drinking behavior and the necessity for drinking in a way that makes it plausible and still maintains the behavior" (Brown 100). Charlie is simply rationalizing his drinking. Clearly, Marion intuitively knows Charlie's thinking is askew. Additionally, during this conversation Lincoln unwittingly states another reason why Charlie's sobriety is tenuous. Lincoln responds, "I get you. You don't want to admit it's got any attraction for you". (Fitzgerald 1313). Without an admission of an alcohol problem, the alcoholic can remain in denial. The text, Alcoholics Anonymous clarifies this point; "Most of us were unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics... therefore, it is not surprising are drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove that we can drink like other people" (Alcoholics Anonymous 30). "

Tags:alcoholism, recovery, addiction, American literature

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses that F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel 'The Great Gatsby' symbolically and starkly illustrates the potential dangers of a ruthless pursuit of success and its tangible if ultimately negligible reward. The writer notes that the main character, Jay Gatsby, reaches the pinnacle of American success, however Gatsby's conception of success is itself purely symbolic. The writer concludes that near the end, Fitzgerald portrays how the once honorable American Dream of personal prosperity as a reward for steady, honest hard work by a person of ability has been replaced by the mere pursuit of money and the wherewithal money itself allows to make purchases symbolic of wealth.

From the Paper
"Here Nick's unclear view of Gatsby, perhaps trembling alone in the darkness, also seems to symbolically and early on underscore the actual tentativeness of Gatsby's own grip on his contrived persona and later on in the story, and as an indirect result, life itself. Moreover, even at the outset of the novel, there is something out there that Gatsby seems at once to perhaps embrace with open arms and perhaps dread with trembling ones. This turns out, looking back to be Daisy.
"Daisy is symbolized at this early point in the book by the green light at the end of her pier. Green is also symbolic of money (old money in this case), something Daisy possesses and that Gatsby does not. "

Tags:material, wealth, status, success

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This is a review of "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which analyzes and comments on one man's personal vision of the 1920's American Dream and the dynamic yet decadent society that fueled his aspirations of wealth and happiness. The author of this paper provides comprehensive descriptions of all the characters, and reveals Gatsby's undying devotion to the pursuit of Daisy Fay Buchanan's love. The author also explains how Fitzgerald produced in his novel, set in the 1920s, a tale for any generation with the message that no one should be deterred from searching for their own piece of heaven on earth.

From the Paper
"The Great Gatsby, through the honest, heart-felt narration of Nick Carraway, celebrates and criticizes the Jazz Age society, stressing its failure to reach its full potential as well as its inability to separate corruption from financial success and happiness. The corruption of this 1920's society caused the inevitable downfall and demise of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald's version of the heroic American character.
"From the outset of the novel, Nick Carraway is established as the mostly impartial but not passive narrator. His loyalties shift during the novel, and he becomes more critical of the individuals he previously thought to be friends and acquaintances. Nick is the straight-edged man in the Eggs, a suburb inhabited by an assortment of millionaires, eccentrics, and upstart societal darlings of the theatrical and musical worlds. Nick comes from a wealthy Mid-West family, but is indeed one of the normal, upstanding people in the novel, not a false face trying to fit into a self-chosen social coterie. Although he lives next to Gatsby's mansion, Nick is detached from the "garish, drunken-Broadway atmosphere" of the Eggs (Sutton 38). He is the most appropriate of all the characters to be the narrator because, as he explains, "...I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known"(Gatsby 64). It has been said, "Nick, who is, like us, within and without, simultaneously repelled and enchanted by the inexhaustible variety of life, is the hero we can and must become"(Gross 168)."

Tags:social, loyalties, happiness, lifestyle

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This ten-page undergraduate paper is a biography of the famous American writer of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald. His life is discussed in detail, and the paper concludes with a survey of the critical response to his work and an analysis of how his writing contributed to society.

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This paper examines famous American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It discusses his marriage, his role in the early 20th century, and his works, including "The Great Gatsby", "The Beautiful and the Damned" and "This Side of Paradise". The author focuses on the typical female characters of his novels and the ways in which they represent and relate to his wife, Zelda.

From the Paper
"F. Scott Fitzgerald was a brilliant, successful, but somehow unhappy writer. He wrote beautifully, but it taxed him, and between alcoholism, his much loved, though somewhat impractical wife, and his struggle with the materialistic upper class he was a part of, he was a man caught in troubles and often unhappy. Despite his many problems, he managed to turn out several novels and over one-hundred-sixty short stories, and though they shared many common themes, each possessed its own individual tone. Of these themes, one of the most interesting is the role of Fitzgerald's women--women as individuals, women and alcohol, women and material wealth, women and failure. Fitzgerald's main female characters were a new type of woman in the literary arena. They weren't made in the image of the traditional woman, but were a combination of such positive traits as attractiveness, charm, youth, capability and independence. Fitzgerald created this woman-girl character in response to his own personal experiences and particularly modeled it after his wife Zelda, whom he adored. He projected much of their relationship and her personality into creating a character who prefigured today's modern woman."

Tags:author, zelda, jay, daisy, great, gatsby, damned, paradise, side, babylon, revisited