F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Reflections of the Jazz Age onto His Writings
      F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 ~ 1940) was a novelist and short story writer who is considered as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is identified of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), or a member of the Lost Generation: “It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.”1 (1 Fitzgerald, F Scott. “Echoes of the Jazz Age”. In The Crack-Up with Other Pieces and Stories. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1965.)
      Fitzgerald portrays similar themes of young generation’s moral corruption, unrestrained desire for money and the tragic ending of their life, which are the main characteristics of Fitzgerald’s own generations of Americans, especially in his three novels; This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Great Gatsby.
      F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald) was born on September 24, 1986. His father was a furniture manufacturer and his mother was from a wealthy family. Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and entered Princeton University in 1913. He left Princeton in 1915 because of his low grades. And he joined the army to serve World War I in 1917. While in the army in Alabama in 1918, he met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre.
      In 1920, Fitzgerald published his first novel, This Side of Paradise and it brought him enough money to marry Zelda that same year. After their marriage, they moved to New York, where they became notorious for their madcap lifestyle. Their daughter, Frances Scott, was born in 1921 after they had spent some time in Europe. In 1922, Fitzgerald published his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned. They moved to Long Island and ran into debt because of their reckless spending. Then, he went to Europe for over two years. In Europe, Fitzgerald’s third novel, The Great Gatsby, was written in 1925. He also became friends with Ernest Hemingway in Paris...