![]() ![]() he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction. the sort of Jay Gatsby (Chapter 6:63) showed that James Gatz was so poor, he invented his new identity as Jay Gatsby, because he was trying to repress his. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation". Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.įitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. ![]()
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