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Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940). Francis Scott Fitzgerald. 1. Life (1) born in the mid-west; a middle class family (2) received expensive education in private school and then entered Princeton. Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 1. Life • (1) born in the mid-west; a middle class family • (2) received expensive education in private school and then entered Princeton
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • (3) famous for his literary talents when he was young (wrote two plays which were performed when he was in the middle school) • (4) He had to leave Princeton because of bad health and poor academic records.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • (5) He joined the army, but the WWI finished before he was send abroad. In his army days, he met Zelda Sayre. (She is a beautiful southern girl, from a wealthy family. She loved social activities very much and told Fitzgerald that she loved him but she was too expensive for him.)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • (6) In order to marry with Zelda, Fitzgerald went to NY City and worked hard. Later when he published his first novel, Zelda married him.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • (7) After the marriage, the couple lived an extravagant life. To support his wife, Fitzgerald had to write short stories in a very fast speed. In his short life, he wrote more than 200 short stories with the pay of 4,000 dollars for each.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • (8) Life for Fitzgerald and Zelda means only parties and travel to Europe for a very long period. However, in early thirties Zelda began to suffered mental breakdown.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • (9) Torments of Fitzgerald in his late years: loneliness, alcohol, disappearing of literary talents;
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • (10) When he was 40 years old, he suffered the tuberculosis and then he attempted to commit suicide. After recovered, he worked for Hollywood for a period but later was dismissed. When he was 44 he died of heart attack.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 2. Works • (1) Novels • “This Side of Paradise” • “The Beautiful and the Damned” • “The Great Gatsby” (masterpiece) • “Tender is the Night” • “The Last Tycoon”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • (2) Short story collection • “The Flappers and Philosophers” • “Tales of the Jazz Age” • “All the Sad Young Man” • “Taps at Reveille”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 3. The Great Gatsby • (1) Setting: 1920s; New York City (signifying the materialized American society) • (2) Plot: narrated by Nick Carraway and began in the spring of 1922 (Read it by yourselves)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • (3) Characters • Nick Carraway: the narrator, rational, mild, understanding, reserved • Jay Gatsby: innocent (romantic imagination of love, believing money’s power) • Daisy Buchanan: shallow, selfish, strong desire for extravagant life
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 4. Conclusion • (1) Fitzgerald is the spokesman of “the roaring 1920s”. • (2) A member and the representative of the Lost Generation
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • * “Lost Generation” refers to many prominent American writers of the decade following the WWI, disillusioned by their war experience and alienated by the crassness of American culture and its commercialization. A number of these writers moved to Europe in the quest for a richer literary and artistic milieu. The name of “Lost Generation” was given by the female writer Gertrude Stein and the representatives of the group should be Fitzgerald and Hemingway.
