The oldest daughter of a wealthy family in Lake Forest, Illinois, she was visiting a friend who was a classmate at Westover School, the toney . Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24th, 1896, in St. Paul, the first surviving child of Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald. [265] At the time of his death, the Roman Catholic Church denied the family's request that Fitzgerald, a non-practicing Catholic, be buried in the family plot in the Catholic Saint Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Agea term he created and popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. My mother didnt know what people wanted, she says. Half the time he thought of himself as the heir of his fathers 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. As a result he had typically ambivalent American feelings about American life, which seemed to him at once vulgar and dazzlingly promising. Fitzgerald is famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), especially in his novel The Great Gatsby. [78] Critics such as H. L. Mencken hailed the work as the best American novel of the year,[79] and newspaper columnists described the work as the first realistic American college novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California), American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925). Soon afterward, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, the Alabama teenager who would, for better or worse, change his life. The map below shows the places where the ancestors of the famous person lived. What is it? Its some inside something. Alternate titles: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Mellon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. [159] Most notable among them was a relatively unknown Ernest Hemingway, whom Fitzgerald first met in May 1925 and grew to admire. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. [224] The article damaged Fitzgerald's reputation and prompted him to attempt suicide after reading it. [289] Although his peers eventually hailed him as possessing "the best narrative gift of the century," this narrative gift was not perceived as immediately evident in his earliest writings. Wrong username or password. The grave of The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald lies next to a major thoroughfare for commuters between Rockville, Md., and Washington, D.C. Jess Gitner/NPR. If you're looking for "ISpys," dating or LTRs, this is your scene. [184] In Spring 1929, the couple returned to Europe. It chronicles the "Jazz Age," post World War I in the United States. [193] A year later, when Mencken met Zelda for the last time, he described her mental illness as immediately evident to any onlooker and her mind as "only half sane. [180], Jealous of Fitzgerald and Moran, an irate Zelda set fire to her own expensive clothing in a bathtub as a self-destructive act. After six weeks, Zelda asked for a divorce. [134], In May 1924, Fitzgerald and his family moved abroad to Europe. Some of Fitzgeralds finest short stories appeared in All the Sad Young Men (1926), particularly The Rich Boy and Absolution, but it was not until eight years later that another novel appeared. [120] Mired in debt by the play's failure, Fitzgerald wrote short stories to restore his finances. [70] Unable to earn a successful living, Fitzgerald publicly threatened to jump to his death from a window ledge of the Yale Club,[d][72] and he carried a revolver daily while contemplating suicide. Get To Know F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Legendary Author Responsible for 'The Great Gatsby'. I needed it to write.'". Musician Blake Hazard, great-granddaughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald, poses for a portrait with The Great Gatsby at The Last Bookstore on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif. ( 2013 . [g][198] Despite his annoyance, he insisted upon few revisions to the work,[h] and he persuaded Perkins to publish Zelda's novel. [259], On learning of her father's death, Scottie telephoned Graham from Vassar and asked she not attend the funeral for social propriety. "[o][400][402] Similarly, Fitzgerald borrowed biographical incidents from his friend, Ludlow Fowler, for his short story "The Rich Boy". "[391] [110] After their eviction from the Commodore Hotel in May 1920, the couple spent the summer in a cottage in Westport, Connecticut, near Long Island Sound. [280] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the society organized an online reading of This Side of Paradise to mark its centenary. [76] Upon reading the telegram, an ecstatic Fitzgerald ran down the streets of St. Paul and flagged down random automobiles to share the news. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)[339], For much of his literary career, cultural commentators hailed Fitzgerald as the foremost chronicler of the Jazz Age generation whose lives were defined by the societal transition towards modernity. [119] The bored audience walked out during the second act. To mention F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald is to invoke the 1920s, the Jazz Age, romance, and outrageous early success, with all its attendant perils. No one objected; on the contrary, it was pointed out that the windows were French and ideally suited for jumping, which seemed to cool his ardor.". [403] In her story, she is trapped in a loveless marriage with a wealthy man, yet still pines for Fitzgerald, a former lover from her past. Scott F. Fitzgerald began drinking caused Zelda to have mental issues and his life went downhill from there. "[331], Realizing that slick magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and Esquire were more likely to publish stories that pandered to young love and featured saccharine dnouements, Fitzgerald became adept at tailoring his short fiction to the vicissitudes of commercial tastes. [185] That winter, Zelda's behavior grew increasingly erratic and violent. [317][318], With the publication of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald had refined his prose style and plot construction, and the literati now hailed him as a master of his craft. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann says F. Scott Fitzgerald's granddaughter enjoyed his adaptation of the novel and believes the author "would be proud" . The names Scott and Zelda can summon taxis at dusk, conjure gleaming hotel lobbies and smoky speakeasies, flappers, yellow phaetons, white suits, large tips . Since the director made the movie in Australia one of the few countries where the copyright does not apply he didnt need to acquire rights, Lanahan explains. [242] On occasions that Fitzgerald failed his attempt at sobriety,[k] he would ask strangers, "I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald. Well talk to reporters, but we dont like being grilled by people close to us., Lanahan says she can relate to the frustration her mother felt when people came to her seeking access to the literary giant. . [215], As he had been an alcoholic for many years,[j][216] Fitzgerald's heavy drinking undermined his health by the late 1930s. [217] Beginning that year, Fitzgerald mocked himself as a Hollywood hack through the character of Pat Hobby in a sequence of 17 short stories. Tiffany even has its own trailer for the movie, in which the camera lingers over Daisys bejeweled hand and zooms in, as Gatsby reaches out to the green light across the bay, on his pinky ring. [175], While attending a lavish party at the Pickfair estate, Fitzgerald met 17-year-old Lois Moran, a starlet who had gained widespread fame for her role in Stella Dallas (1925). [153] For the rest of his life, The Great Gatsby experienced tepid sales. Scott was the best friend a person could have to me". [367] Consequently, Fitzgerald's characters are trapped in a rigid American class system. [153] By the end of the year, the book had sold fewer than 23,000 copies. [388] Largely indifferent to politics, Fitzgerald himself ascribed the lack of ideational substance in his fiction to his upbringing, as his parents were likewise disinterested in such matters. Her daughter, Blake Hazard of the indie-pop group the Submarines, appears in some of the movies party scenes as a dancer. With all the renewed interest in Gatsby, Lanahan has been extra busy with the Fitzgerald estate. He fell in love with Ginevra King, one of the beauties of her generation. Born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to a middle-class Catholic family, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was named after his distant cousin, Francis Scott Key, who wrote in 1814 the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". 29. [349] They decried his use of modern "alien slang" and claimed his depiction of young people engaged in drunken sprees and premarital sex to be wholly fabricated. Were all very shy. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, one of the states in the Midwest of the USA. [286] In 1994, the World Theater in St. Paulhome of the radio broadcast of A Prairie Home Companionwas renamed the Fitzgerald Theater. for sale by owner This is a red-letter week for American literature because it marks the debut of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby in 1925. According to biographer Andrew Turnbull, "one day, drinking martinis in the upstairs lounge, [Fitzgerald] announced that he was going to jump out of the window. According to Graham, Fitzgerald "had begun drinking, as a young man, because in those days everyone drank. As Luhrmann noted on Colbert, Lanahan is an elegant lady but shes also endearingly down to earth. In the spring of 1920 it was published, he married Zelda, and. The Great Gatsby is the most profoundly American novel of its time; at its conclusion, Fitzgerald connects Gatsbys dream, his Platonic conception of himself, with the dream of the discoverers of America. I think I started then to be a writer." [201] Scribner's published Zelda's novel in October 1932, but it was a commercial and critical failure. She was sweet enough that you could see why Gatsby loved her. [12] Although his alcoholic father was now destitute, his mother's inheritance supplemented the family income and allowed them to continue living a middle-class lifestyle. [385] Wilson argued that Fitzgerald's early works such as This Side of Paradise suffer from the defects of being meaningless and lacking intellectual substance. It sold well enough to warrant additional print runs reaching 50,000 copies. His mother was from a wealthy family, and his father, Edward, was a furniture manufacturer. [289], Remarking upon the cultural association between Fitzgerald and the flaming youth of the Jazz Age, Gertrude Stein wrote in her memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that the author's fiction essentially created this new generation in the public's mind. Robert Emmet Long, The Achieving of The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920 1925 (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1979). [235], Estranged from Zelda, Fitzgerald attempted to reunite with his first love Ginevra King when the wealthy Chicago heiress visited Hollywood in 1938. Scott, wife Zelda, and daughter Scottie lived in a rented cottage in Baltimore, close to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where Zelda was being treated for . [31] Her imperious father Charles Garfield King purportedly told a young Fitzgerald that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls. During our lunchtime interview, she inelegantly dumped her to-go container of salad onto a plate and giggled as it spilled all over the table. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers (C0187) is a comprehensive literary archive containing the original manuscripts, working drafts, corrected galleys, personal and professional correspondence, autobiographical scrapbooks, photographs, and other original materials of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), Princeton Class of 1917. tags: classic, drama, fiction, nick-carraway. He had written all but two of the stories before 1920. [68] In the wake of Fitzgerald's rejection by Ginevra two years prior, his subsequent rejection by Zelda dispirited him. She had enough pressure coming from the outside. [346] "No generation of Americans has had a chronicler so persuasive and unmaudlin" as Fitzgerald, Van Allen wrote in 1934, and no author was so identified with the generation recorded. [195] While Fitzgerald labored on his novel, Zelda wroteand sent to Scribner'sher own fictionalized version of these same autobiographical events in Save Me the Waltz (1932). Abstract. Her husband, famed writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, called her the first American flapper . As you might imagine, Lanahan has experienced The Great Gatsby in many forms: Garrison Keillor's all-day reading of the book at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn.; Gatz, a seven-hour . [66] Rejected over 120 times, he sold only one story, "Babes in the Woods", and received a pittance of $30. Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934). [157], After wintering in Italy, the Fitzgeralds returned to France, where they alternated between Paris and the French Riviera until 1926. [a][3] His mother was Mary "Molly" McQuillan Fitzgerald, the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer. The pair had just one child, named Frances (or Scottie). Zelda Fitzgerald was an icon of the Roaring Twenties. "[272] His New York Times obituary deemed his work forever tied to an era "when gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession". of 'Gatsby' Era", "The Great Gatsby Line That Came From Fitzgerald's Lifeand Inspired a Novel", "The Downside of Paradise: Fitzgerald's Final Days", "The Great Gatsby's Creative Destruction", "As Big as the Ritz: The Mythology of the Fitzgeralds", "How 'Gatsby' Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American Novel", "Scott and Zelda: Fractious in life, but together in death in a Rockville cemetery plot", "Slow Fade: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood", "An Affair of Youth: In Search of Flappers, Belles, and the First Grave of the Fitzgeralds", "F. Scott Fitzgerald's life was a study in destructive alcoholism", "Fitzgerald as Screenwriter: No Hollywood Ending", "Foreword for the interview with F. 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C asual Racism. Scott and Zelda had a tumultuous relationship, characterized by excessive drinking, partying, and fighting. In October 1939 he began a novel about Hollywood, The Last Tycoon. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Rich Boy" (1926)[356], A recurrent theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction is the psychic and moral gulf between the average American and wealthy elites. [369][370] As a young boy growing up in the eastern Midwest, he perpetually strained "to meet the standard of the rich people of St. Paul and Chicago among whom he had to grow up without ever having the money to compete with them". His parents were Mollie (McQuillan) and Edward Fitzgerald. [253] Edmund Wilson and Aaron Latham suggested Hollywood sucked Fitzgerald's creativity like a vampire. [292] During these early attempts at writing fiction, he received over 122 rejection letters,[293] and the publishing house Scribner's rejected his first novel three times despite extensive rewrites. His earliest short stories were cinematically adapted as flapper comedies such as The Husband Hunter (1920), The Chorus Girl's Romance (1920), and The Off-Shore Pirate (1921). [13] Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy from 1908 to 1911. What was F. Scott Fitzgeralds family like? [b][44] Zelda was one of the most celebrated debutantes of Montgomery's exclusive country club set. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. This is my immediate dutywithout this I am nothing. I would as soon be as anonymous as Rimbaud if I could feel that I had accomplished that purpose. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a 20th-century American short-story writer and novelist. It was around this time that Fitzgerald first met Ernest Hemingway. [63][64] Although he received a small raise for creating a catchy slogan, "We keep you clean in Muscatine", for an Iowa laundry,[65] Fitzgerald subsisted in relative poverty. This is Fitzgeralds most moving book, though it was commercially unsuccessful. [328] Nevertheless, a minority opinion praised the work as the best American novel since The Great Gatsby. [304] He argued that "the thing that chiefly interests the basic Fitzgerald is still the florid show of modern American lifeand especially the devil's dance and that goes on at the top. Tiffany & Co., the Plaza Hotel, Brooks Brothers theyve all unveiled Gatsby collections. Cambridge University Press is publishing the complete works of F. Scott Fitzgerald in authoritative annotated editions. "Well, three months before I was born," he wrote as an adult, "my mother lost her . The earliest story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Gatsby cluster" Story of the Week Sunday, March 6, 2022. . [113], After his daughter's birth, Fitzgerald returned to drafting The Beautiful and Damned. [321] By eliminating the earlier defects in his writing, he had upgraded from "a brilliant improvisateur" to "a conscientious and painstaking artist. An opposition between two settings is significantly shown in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby". But its hard to deliver.. What did F. Scott Fitzgerald write about? Viral TikTok Post Brings Delayed Fame to Montpelier Author, 5. [297] He discarded the stodgy narrative technique of most novels and instead unspooled the plot in the form of textual fragments, letters, and poetry intermingled together. This fame opened to him magazines of literary prestige, such as Scribners, and high-paying popular ones, such as The Saturday Evening Post. He was born into a family of aristocrats. What do you want? [28] Her return home ended Fitzgerald's weekly courtship. He didnt have enough, most of the time.. [175] Fitzgerald later rewrote Rosemary Hoytone of the central characters in Tender is the Nightto mirror Moran. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were the darlings of the Jazz Age late nights, lots of liquor, and brilliant wit to . Gym Time for Toddlers: Five Places to Play Indoors During Mud Season, 4. Easton Press F. Scott Fitzgerald Leather Bound Complete 7 Vol. [m][263] Among the attendees were his only child, Scottie, his agent Harold Ober, and his lifelong editor Maxwell Perkins. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to H. L. Mencken, 1934[269], At the time of his death, Fitzgerald believed his life a failure and that his work was forgotten. [171] Zelda found condoms he had purchased before any encounter occurred, and a bitter quarrel ensued, resulting in lingering jealousy. Fitzgerald died of a heart attack when he . The family moved to France in 1924 where he started writing The Great Gatsby. Shes been blown away by the enormous licensing agreements the new movie has inspired. [9] His parents sent him to two Catholic schools on Buffalo's West Sidefirst Holy Angels Convent (19031904) and then Nardin Academy (19051908). "Get some more ice and mineral water, Myrtle, before everybody goes to sleep.". [232][233] Despite earning his highest annual income up to that point ($29,757.87, equivalent to $560,922 in 2021),[232] Fitzgerald spent the bulk of his income on Zelda's psychiatric treatment and his daughter Scottie's school expenses. [f] It would take decades for the novel to gain its present acclaim and popularity. American author of novels and short stories, Born on September 24, 1896 [404] As early as 1922, critic John V. A. Weaver noted that Fitzgerald's literary influence was already "so great that it cannot be estimated. Although he completed four novels and more than 150 short stories in his lifetime, he is perhaps best remembered for his third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). It's been made into a movie five times. On September 24, 1896 , Scott F. Fitzgerald was born. [398] When reading This Side of Paradise, Fay wrote to Fitzgerald that the use of his own biographical experiences told in confidence to the young author "gave him a queer feeling. But Lanahan says over time she became excited about the production, and she wasnt the only one in her family to feel that way. [319][320] Readers complimented him that Gatsby "is compact, economical, polished in the technique of the novel,"[300] and his writing now contained "some of the nicest little touches of contemporary observation you could imagineso light, so delicate, so sharp". [256] On the night of December20, 1940, Fitzgerald and Graham attended the premiere of This Thing Called Love. Fitzgerald worked on his fourth novel, Tender Is the Night (1934), sporadically for almost ten years after . From 2014-2020, Seven Days allowed readers to comment on all stories posted on our website. [119] During an intermission, Fitzgerald asked lead actor Ernest Truex if he planned to finish the performance. "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.". Paul. [285] In 1990, Hofstra University established the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, which later became an affiliate of the American Literature Association. All of his divided nature is in this novel, the naive Midwesterner afire with the possibilities of the American Dream in its hero, Jay Gatsby, and the compassionate Yale gentleman in its narrator, Nick Carraway. post your service, apartments [323], The realization that Fitzgerald had improved as a novelist to point that Gatsby was a masterwork was immediately evident to certain members of the literary world. [416] The Last Tycoon has been adapted into a 1976 film,[417] and a 2016 Amazon Prime TV miniseries. A Food Writer Navigates a Nauseous First Trimester, 5. Ginevra King. It is the story of a psychiatrist who marries one of his patients, who, as she slowly recovers, exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgeralds words, un homme puis (a man used up). 5, Set in the unique atmosphere of the 1920s Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby explores the lure of . The 1920s are back, and we can thank Baz Luhrmann's remake of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Thisthe promise and failure of the American Dreamis a common theme in Fitzgeralds work. Like "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. ", Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald in eBook form, Catalog of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Personal Library, American Writers: A Journey Through History, F. Scott Fitzgerald in MNopedia, the Minnesota Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F._Scott_Fitzgerald&oldid=1141917460, This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 15:02. Zelda Fitzgerald was a writer, dancer, and Jazz Age celebrity who struggled on and off with mental illness. [222] By 1935, alcoholism disrupted Fitzgerald's writing and limited his mental acuity. He was named after the lawyer and poet Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the national anthem of the United States, "The Star-Spangled Banner". [421] Fitzgerald's relationships with Sheilah Graham and Frances Kroll Ring respectively served as the basis for the films Beloved Infidel (1959) and Last Call (2002). [142] Soon after, Zelda overdosed on sleeping pills. [245] After visiting several bookstores, he realized they had stopped carrying his works. Corrections? The book sells half a million copies each year, totaling over 25 million copies sold since it was published. Scott Fitzgerald in "Echoes of the Jazz Age" (1931)[92], Living in luxury at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City,[93] the newlywed couple became national celebrities, as much for their wild behavior as for the success of Fitzgerald's novel. [205] The novel did not sell well upon publication, with approximately 12,000 sold in the first three months,[206] but, like The Great Gatsby, the book's reputation has since grown significantly.[207]. "[140], Work on The Great Gatsby slowed while the Fitzgeralds sojourned on the French Riviera, where a marital crisis developed. This Side of Paradise sold approximately 40,000 copies in the first year. [246][247], During this last phase of his career, Fitzgerald's screenwriting tasks included revisions on Madame Curie (1943) and an unused dialogue polish for Gone with the Wind (1939)a book which Fitzgerald disparaged as unoriginal and an "old wives' tale". [252], Director Billy Wilder described Fitzgerald's foray into Hollywood as like that of "a great sculptor who is hired to do a plumbing job". Fitzgerald also dramatizes the grim failures of . , John MALLORY, Isabeau de DAMPIERRE , John de FIENNES, Alinor de PROVENCE , Henri III d'ANGLETERRE. [364] His novel, The Great Gatsby, underscores the limits of the American lower class to transcend their station of birth. [217] In September 1936, journalist Michel Mok of the New York Post publicly reported Fitzgerald's alcoholism and career failure in a nationally syndicated article. [e][163][164] "I always felt a story in the [Saturday Evening] Post was tops", Zelda later recalled, "But Scott couldn't stand to write them. After Edward's business failed, he was employed by Proctor and Gamble, and the family transferred to Buffalo . [249] In his spare time, he worked on his fifth novel, The Last Tycoon,[l] based on film executive Irving Thalberg. September 24, 1896. "[193] Throughout the luncheon, she manifested signs of mental distress. "[299] His work, they declared, pulsed with originality. [214] When Ober ceased advancing money, an ashamed Fitzgerald severed ties with his agent believing Ober had lost faith in him due to his alcoholism. American short-story writer and novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his turbulent personal life and his famous novel 'The Great Gatsby.' Updated: Jul 9, 2020 (1896-1940) Video: Trent Cooper Celebrates Three Years of Trents Bread in Westford, 3. The Great Gatsby (1925), the novel for which Fitzgerald has become most well known, met only limited success upon its publication. homes for sale Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. [112] As she emerged from the anesthesia, he recorded Zelda saying, "Oh, God, goofo [sic] I'm drunk. [182], The Fitzgeralds rented "Ellerslie", a mansion near Wilmington, Delaware, until 1929. [209] As writer Budd Schulberg recalled, "my generation thought of F. Scott Fitzgerald as an age rather than a writer, and when the economic stroke of 1929 began to change the sheiks[i] and flappers into unemployed boys or underpaid girls, we consciously and a little belligerently turned our backs on Fitzgerald. Updates? [152] Despite this reception, Gatsby became a commercial failure compared to his previous efforts, This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922). [121] Fitzgerald viewed his stories as worthless except for "Winter Dreams", which he described as his first attempt at the Gatsby idea. 49 Questions from Britannicas Most Popular Literature Quizzes. Details. How Does Fitzgerald Present The West Egg In The Great Gatsby. [Fitzgerald's] talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. [282], Seven years later, Fitzgerald's friend Edmund Wilson remarked that he now received copious letters from female admirers of Fitzgerald's works and that his flawed alcoholic friend had posthumously become "a semi-divine personage" in the popular imagination. [97], Fitzgerald's ephemeral happiness mirrored the societal giddiness of the Jazz Age, a term which he popularized in his essays and stories. "[280], The Great Gatsby's popularity led to widespread interest in Fitzgerald himself. Hardcover. [108], As their quarrels worsened, the couple accused each other of marital infidelities. I needed to catch up. [361] H. L. Mencken believed Fitzgerald's myopic focus upon the rich detracted from the broader relevance of his societal observations. The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted poet T. S. Eliot to opine that the novel was the most significant evolution in American fiction since the works of Henry James. 'The Great Gatsby' by F. 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