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This 5 page paper discusses the great similarities between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his character, Jay Gatsby, protagonist of “The Great Gatsby.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to have so much in common. This paper argues that it is not unlikely that Fitzgerald, either knowingly or unconsciously, modeled Jay Gatsby on himself. Discussion The Great Gatsby is
widely considered the finest novel ever written by an American. Perhaps part of its power lies in its dual nature. It is the story of the "American dream" and how
it is both attained and subsequently lost; yet at the same time it castigates that dream for its materialism, selfishness and sheer greed. That is, readers find Gatsby admirable because
he succeeded in his quest, but the quest itself isnt worth pursuing. The time period: The novel is set in the 1920s, the "Jazz Age," just before the Wall
Street Crash of 1929 and the Depression that followed. This is also the time that Fitzgerald lived; that is, the novel is neither historical nor futuristic, but depicts events that
are contemporary. He and Gatsby share the same period in history, in other words. Fitzgerald is the "one writer most identified with the roaring 20s ... [and] was among the
first writers to draw attention to the new post-World War I sophistication, particularly such phenomena as petting parties and youthful love affairs" ("The Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda
were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his writing" ("The Jazz Age"). They disrupted plays by "laughing at the sad parts and
weeping over jokes"; they rode on taxi hoods; and they entertained lavishly ("The Jazz Age"). Fitzgeralds novels and stories recorded life in the 1920s, and "partly served to create" this
period as well ("The Jazz Age"). Donaldson notes that Fitzgerald was "a writer very much of his own time ... The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the
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