The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Introduction

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21,1940) was an American author of books and short tales, whose works have been glimpsed as evocative of the Jazz Age, a period he himself supposedly coined. He is considered as one of the utmost twentieth 100 years writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age throughout World War I. He completed four books, left a fifth unfinished, and composed dozens of short tales that heal topics of youth, despair, and age (Richard pp.56-70).

Thesis Statement

Fitzgerald made some excursions to Europe, especially Paris and the French Riviera, and became associates with numerous constituents of the American expatriate community in Paris, especially Ernest Hemingway.

Discussion

Born on Cathedral Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle class Irish Catholic house, Fitzgerald was entitled after his well renowned relation Francis Scott Key, but was mentioned to as 'Scott'. He expended 1898-1901 and 1903-1908 in Buffalo, New York, where he came to Nardin Academy. When his dad was discharged from Proctor & Gamble, the family shifted back to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald came to St. Paul Academy in St. Paul from 1908-1911. His first part of publications was released in his school bulletin when he was 13. He came to Newman School, a prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1911-1912, and then went into Princeton University in 1913 as a constituent of the Class of 1917. There he became associates with future detractors and writers Edmund Wilson (Class of 1916) and John Peale Bishop (Class of 1917), and composed for the Princeton Triangle Club. A mediocre scholar all through his three-years at Princeton, Fitzgerald fallen out in 1917 to recruit in the United States Army when the US went into World War I. Fitzgerald composed a innovative titled The Romantic Egotist, portions of which subsequent mostly were reincarnated as the first half of This Side of Paradise, while at Princeton, and revised the work at Camp Zachary Taylor and Camp Sheridan. When he submitted the innovative to Charles Scribner's Sons, the reviewer applauded the composing but finally turned down the book. The conflict completed soon after Fitzgerald's enlistment. (Charles p.136.)

The 1920s verified the most influential ten years of Fitzgerald's development. His second innovative, The Beautiful and Damned, released in 1922, illustrates an evolution after the comparatively immature This Side of Paradise. The Great Gatsby, Scott's masterpiece, was released in 1925. (Hubbell 1995)

Hemingway substantially adored The Great Gatsby and composed in his A Moveable Feast "If he could compose a publication as fine as The Great Gatsby I was certain that he could compose an even better one" (153). Hemingway conveyed his deep esteem for Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald's flawed, condemned feature, when he prefaced his sections in relative to Fitzgerald in A Moveable Feast with:

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