The Great Gatsby was a major success in Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald’s writing career. With more failures than successes, Fitzgerald’s determination to achieve a best seller had become a reality by reason of The Great Gatsby published 1996. The novel is written with many twists and hidden mysteries. Nick Carraway, a young and said to be attractive man, finds himself mentally captivated by Jay Gatsby, his neighbor who is seen to live this wild lifestyle. Carraway receives an invitation to one of Gatsby’s parties. Intrigued by Gatsby’s ambitious lifestyle, Nick attends. Although seeming to be wild and overwhelming, he realizes something about this atmosphere seems phony. Nobody knew the real Gatsby; most guests couldn’t identify him if he was standing right next to him. Taken back by all that is happening around him, Nick is determined to find this Gatsby everyone speaks so highly about, but no one really knew. Further on Gatsby’s side, his heart ached for Daisy Buchanan. Married to Tom Buchanan with a child, it was not as easy to love him as it was for him to love her. Gatsby truly believed Daisy never loved Tom, and pressed for her to admit it throughout the novel. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald highlights the concept of the cliché upper class living in the 1920’s along with the act of illegal importing; this thematic structure of the text parallels the concept of the American Dream and hustling in current popular culture and for this reason the text is a classic still read and respected today.
Fitzgerald knew at a young, undeveloped age that he wanted to be a writer. Born September 24, 1986 into a broken family in Minnesota (F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer), it was easiest for him to turn to writing with the hectic childhood he had; his dad being a failure and relying so heavily on his mother for attention and love. Fitzgerald enrolled in an all-male school, Princeton, and became part of the class of 1917. After a not so successful college experience, Fitzgerald met Zelda and proposed to her, but did not marry until he later became wealthy off “This Side of Paradise” because “poor boys don’t marry rich girls” (F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer). Before and during his unbalanced marriage with Zelda, Fitzgerald became an avid drinker. Zelda became mentally ill and started to lose her mind and ended up in an asylum. This marriage was broken between his alcoholism and her being so mentally unstable. In 1922, Fitzgerald began writing his finest work The Great Gatsby. At this time, he and Zelda were married, but separated by the walls of the asylum. In March 1948, Zelda died due to a fire in the hospital. After said scenario, Fitzgerald decided to give...