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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

     Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is known as one of the most important
American writers of his time.  He wrote about the troubling time period in which
he lived known as the Jazz Age.  During this era people were either rich or
dreamt of great wealth.  Fitzgerald fell into the trap of wanting to be wealthy,
and suffered great personal anguish because of these driving forces.  I have
chosen to write a term paper on F.Scott Fitzgerald.  The goal of this
presentation is to show F. Scott Fitzgerald's life through his defeats and
triumphs and how these situations affected his life as a writer.
     Fitzgerald's life started in the Midwestern part of the United States.
On September 24, 1896, he  was born  in St. Paul, Minnesota.  F. Scott
Fitzgerald was of Irish heritage on both sides and was distantly related to
Francis Scott Key, for whom he is named, and to Maryland aristocracy.   His
parents, Edward Fitzgerald of the Glen Mary Farm near Rockville, Maryland and
Mary McQuillan of St. Paul wed February 13, 1890 in Washington, D.C.  Fitzgerald'
s maternal grandfather was a very successful wholesale merchant.  His
grandfather's early death and his father's inability to keep a job, forced the
family to be extremely dependent on the wealth of his grandfather's estate.
Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy as a child.  In 1911 he entered the
Newman School in Hackensack, NJ.  Growing up with a father who was out of work
and who relied on his wife's inheritance gave Fitzgerald a mixed feeling of
guilt and shame and yet he felt love for both his parents.   These inner
conflicts in his early life could have contributed to his inability to manage
his finances, along with his constant obsession of gaining extreme wealth.
       Fitzgerald later went to Princeton University, where writing and
football were his main interests.  It was there that he met friends Edmund
Wilson and John Peale Bishop.  Fitzgerald was too small to play football so he
joined a fraternity called the triangle club, the second most prestigious cliche
on campus, football being first.  After Princeton, Fitzgerald was quoted as
saying to a friend “I want to be the greatest writer who ever lived don't you
(Bruccoli, 1981).”  In 1917, Fitzgerald joined the army and prepared to fight in
World War I.  It was soon after his mobilization that he sold his first story to
the Smart Set.  This was the beginning of Fitzgerald's passion for writing, and
at this time...

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