One year afterFitzgerald's birth, his father's wicker-furniture manufacturing business failed, and the family moved to Buffalo, New York, where his father joined Procter & Gamble as a salesman.[10] Fitzgerald spent the first decade ofhis childhood primarily in Buffalo with a brief... How came people did not respect Fitzgerald’s writing in the twentieth century, but why people are respecting and valuing Fitzgerald work in the twenty-first century? Fitzgerald had a hard time to profiting from his writing, but he was not successful afterhis first novel. Lacking any transcendent perspective, Gatsby (book and film) must equate his value as a person to what he has, to the power he wields, and to what others think of him, especially what Daisy thinks of him, all dead ends. How much of this didFitzgeraldhimself “get”? He based a lot about the character Gatsby on himself.Fitzgeraldbased the relationship between Gatsby and Dan Cody on his boyhood experience with Robert Kerr (Bruccoli 212). ... " Fitzgerald invests Gatsby with many of the characteristics of the heroes of myth and romance . . ." Like with all Fitzgerald's characters they are complex when it comes to relationships, and draws comparisons to the problems of himself and wife Zelda.As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. However, afterhis mother remarried a man named Wallace Fitzgerald he became known as Roy Fitzgerald. He grew up in Winnetka, Illinois before he enlisted in World War Two after graduating high school in 1943. In fact, Fitzgerald had little time to relax after Gatsby, his life was demanding and debilitating.The only character in Gatsby who calls on God directly is George Wilson, in his agonized vigil after Myrtle's death. But Wilson's God is both strange and estranged. He basedcharacteraftercharacter on her through his career, and yet we’ve known almost nothing of her. She was elusive with Fitzgerald’s two biographers and after that didn’t talk to anyone else. For Zelda we have a great amount of information. How did he do it? Essentially, he wrote a Great American Story. Fitzgerald was able to create what may be the fundamental story structure of 20th Century America and weave together a number of characters that each express a different take on the problem that the structure exposes. (13) In his early career as a novelist, Fitzgerald clearly had difficulty in distinguishing himself from hischaracters. One reason for the success of The Great Gatsby is precisely the fact that he managed to create characters who were not his alter egos. The Sensible Thing is, ostensibly, the story of George, a young man without enough money to marry his sweetheart. She ends up breaking off the engagement, even though she loves him, because there is no promise that he can support himself, much less her. How doesFitzgerald's selection of names enhance characterization? Select a character and explain. One of Fitzgerald's strengths is his imagistic style. Consider the moods created in his description of the Buchanan's mansion, Gatsby's mansion, etc. Furthermore, his theatricality, as is emphasized through his lifestyle, serves to underscore the hollowness ofhischaracter and the American Dream. Gatsby’s characterdoes indeed fit the social changes and construct of the early 20th century. How doesFitzgerald's use of figurative language enhance The Great Gatsby? Fitzgerald uses figurative language like personification to help readers visualize descriptions and actions.
