文档介绍：F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
Fizgerald was born in 1896 into a St. Paul middle-class family. When he was studied at Princeton, he had wrote scripts. Then he became an editor of a university magazine and was developing a reputation. He felt that he was heading for the upper class life in which he would play a leading part as a writer. However, because of the First World War, he had to leave the university. Thus, the absence from the university wounded his pride and ambition so that it ironed itself into his consciousness as one of the major disappointments he suffered in his short,unhappy life. Scott got married with Zelda, but their life was not always happy. It was in the thirties that Zelda was put in a mental institution. Three things bined to break Fizgerald down: loneliness, alcohol, and the awareness that he was dissipating his talent. All of these experiences influence his later writing.
Fizgerald's greatness lies in the fact that he found intuitively, in his personal experience, the embodiment of that of the nation and created a myth out of American life. The story of The Great Gatsby is a good illustration. Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest. He falls in love with Daisy, a wealthy girl, but is too poor to marry her. The girl is then married to a rich man, Tom Buchanan. Determined to win his lost love back, Gatsby engages himself in bootlegging and ot