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Life Experiences of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2003.
An examination of how F. Scott Fitzgerald's life impacted his writing of "The Great Gatsby".
1,308 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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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".
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"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."
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Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2006.
This paper reviews the life and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing especially on the plots and characters in his novel "The Great Gatsby" and his short story "Winter Dreams".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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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.
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"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."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2002.
A bio of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, £ 46.95
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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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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2003.
A biography of the famous author, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,860 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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This paper looks at the life and early works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It begins by describing his childhood and upbringing. It looks at his personal life, marriage, and parenthood. It discusses some of his early works and the attitudes of critics toward him in his early days.
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"Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. His given names indicate his parent's pride in his father's distant cousin who authored the National Anthem (Brief pg). Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy where his first writing appeared in the school newspaper when he was thirteen years old. At Princeton in 1917, he focused his attention on his literary apprenticeship, writing scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club musicals and contributing to the Princeton Tiger humor magazine and the Nassau Literary Magazine (Brief pg). Having neglected his studies and unlikely to graduate, Fitzgerald joined the army that year and convinced that he was going to die in the war, he quickly wrote his first novel, 'The Romantic Egotist' and submitted it to Charles Scribner's Sons for publication (Brief pg). While stationed at Camp Sheridan, outside Montgomery, Alabama, in 1918, he met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre, the eighteen year old daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge (Brief pg). He was discharged in 1919 and moved to New York to pursue his career (Brief pg)."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2006.
A discussion regarding the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, £ 22.95
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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.
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"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. "
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2001.
A discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and the typical female characters in his writings.
3,495 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 5 sources, £ 51.95
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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.
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"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."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", 2004.
A review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby."
2,082 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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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.
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"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)."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2006.
An overview of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,222 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 21.95
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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".
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"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."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Modernist Movement, 2002.
Discusses the main characteristics of the modernist movement in literature and F. Scott Fitzgerald's role in the movement.
1,636 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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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.
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"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"."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night", 2004.
This paper discusses one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novels, "Tender is the Night", and focuses not on a socioeconomic trope, but rather a psychological one.
2,220 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 35.95
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This paper explains that, unlike earlier novels, Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night" pays more attention to internalized issues instead of focusing solely on the wealth of the characters as the means by which they express themselves. The author points out that, in this manner, Fitzgerald brings the reader closer to the characters he creates, characters who operate with less flash and dazzle and more strain and spontaneity. The paper relates that the main conflict of the novel lies in Dick Diver's complete collapse as his life changes from that of an affluent and respected doctor to a humiliated, alcoholic outcast.
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"At this point, as it seems to be moving towards an inevitable climax in which the couple comes to a resolution, the novel surprises the reader by going back in time several years and exploring Dick's career as a doctor, the Great War, and the early relationship between Dick and Nicole. We see that Dick is no stranger to Europe, as he was stationed
there when in the US Army. More of an intellectual than a soldier, Dick spends the war as a doctor in France and Germany. The reader is introduced to the character of Franz Gregorovius, Dick's business partner and friend, who, though the two have much in common initially, acts as a rational foil to Dick during his later unraveling. Dick meets
Nicole when she is a patient at their clinic, and writes to her while in France."
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"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2002.
This paper discusses the theme of social oppression by the elite on the lower class in the society, as represented by the East Egg and the West Egg communities in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,145 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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The paper discusses the first sub-theme, which concerns the socioeconomic status of people in the East and West Egg societies, as evidenced in the illustration of the wealthy and rich lifestyle of the Eastern Egg society and the "new money" or newly found wealth (nouveau riche society) of the Western Egg society. The author relates that the second sub-theme touches on the cultural differences between the East and West Egg communities, as presented by the rich and lavish lifestyle of Tom and Daisy and the kitschy and flamboyant display of wealth shown in Gatsby's parties every Friday. The paper concludes that the last sub-theme is represented by the use of symbolism; wherein, Fitzgerald's characters serve as symbols representing the 'character' of the East Egg and West Egg societies.
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"In "The Great Gatsby," Tom and Daisy's lifestyle greatly contrasts the majority of households located in the West Egg. In Chapter 1, Nick explicitly expresses the social inequality existing between the East and West Egg in describing the physical and cultural features of the society: "I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them." Nick's description of the East Egg is also evidence how this region represents the affluence and wealth of the American society. The East Egg is characterized as the "old moneyed sophistication" and the West Egg as "new moneyed aggressiveness". Although the latter's character shows a positive portrayal of a socially mobile society, that is, a society that provides opportunities for everyone, this occurrence is definitely not agreed upon by the East Egg inhabitants, who treat West Egg "contemptuously," just like Nick's description of Miss Baker's comment when she learned that the narrator resides in the West Egg region. Thus, in this sub-theme, social conflict is expressed by assessing the socio-economic status of individuals through the places that they live in, which, in the novel's case, is portrayed by the conflict between East and West Egg regions."
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"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1991.
This paper describes the "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald the effect of the withering of American dream on the characters.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, £ 24.95
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"In "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald describes three adjacent neighborhoods on Long Island. One is East Egg, where the established wealthy families live. The second is West Egg, which consists mostly of the "newly rich". The third is the "valley of ashes," a lower class neighborhood which is depicted as a "waste land" of gaudy billboards and corrosive dust. Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan visit the valley of ashes a few days prior to the Fourth of July. Because of this reference to America's Independence Day, ... indicates that Fitzgerald's intention is to make a "comment on the new republic and the society it has fostered". ... further claims that the valley of ashes refers to "the failure of the ... "
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", 1991.
This paper discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", an American obsession with wealth.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, £ 24.95
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is largely concerned with the American obsession with wealth. Throughout the novel, the concept of the American dream is equated with the attainment of wealth. Even Gatsby's desire to win Daisy's love is ultimately shown to be a symbol for this dream. Fitzgerald does not glorify the American obsession with wealth in The Great Gatsby; in fact, he condemns it by emphasizing the tragic downfall of the book's title character. In this regard, Brand has noted that The Great Gatsby is "a mythic critique of the American dream" (1100). The overall message of Fitzgerald's novel is that wealth and material gain are elusive, transitory, and unreal. In addition, Fitzgerald makes the point that the desire for wealth is often a corrupting influence. Thus, in the words of Fidel-Honigman, The Great Gatsby "analyzes acquisition
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F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, 2000.
An examination of the two writers' lives and works and comparison of how each used his fiction to depict his own experiences and world view.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, £ 24.95
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"F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were two of the finest writers of this century and two of the most distinctively American voices of 20th century literature as well. Although their styles were radically different, they both used their fiction to depict their own experiences in often barely fictionalized form.
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"F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were two of the finest writers of this century and two of the most distinctively American voices of 20th century literature as well. Although their styles were radically different, they both used their fiction to depict their own experiences in often barely fictionalized form. They also used their fiction, and especially their short stories, to advance their philosophies. Ironically, although each attempted to create a voice and a fictional persona that was highly individual and unique, each came to be seen as the voice of a generation and so at least in some ways lost their individuality. This paper examines how the two writers blended life and fiction in their works.
Before beginning this discussion though, it should be noted that the pairing of these two authors, while legitimate on..."
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