1. F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. From Minnesota to Hollywood
St. Paul, MN-1896
Buffalo, NY-1898
St. Paul-1901
Buffalo-1903
St. Paul-1908
New Jersey-1911
Montgomery, AL-1918
NYC-1919
St. Paul-July 1919
Great Neck, Long Island-fall 1922
France-spring 1924
Rome-winter 1924
Paris-spring 1925
Hollywood 1926
Wilmington, DE-spring 1927
Montgomery-fall 1931
Asheville, NC-1936
Hollywood-1937

3. Education
Attended expensive private schools-St. Paul Academy and Newman School
Bad academic record
Began college at Princeton in 1913, age 16
Neglected studies for literary apprenticeship
Wrote scripts and lyrics for Princeton’s Triangle Club
On academic probation in 1917
Did not graduate
Joined army for WWI in 1917

4. Writing at a Young Age Wrote and produced 2 melodramas
First published writing was a detective story in school newspaper
Thought he was going to die at war so quickly wrote The Romantic Egotist
Rejected twice
After war, changed title to This Side of Paradise and published

5. Family Married Zelda Syre on April 2, 1920
A week after This Side of Paradise was published
Baby in 1921-Francis Scott “Scottie” Fitzgerald
Time in New York, Paris, the Riviera, &
Rome
Expatriates with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and John Dos Passos
Fights caused by drinking bouts
Marriage damaged in France-French aviator
She had schizophrenia
Killed in 1928 in a hospital fire

6. Works This Side of Paradise (1920) The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender is the Night (1934)
The Love of the Last Tycoon (unfinished, 1940)
Flappers and Philosophers (1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
The Vegetable (play, 1923)
All the Sad Young Men (play, 1926)
Taps at Relleiville (play, 1935)
Wrote short stories for The Saturday Evening Post, Scribner’s Magazine, and Esquire

7. Themes
Main theme I noticed in The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise was that the main characters were never satisfied with their lives.
Wrote a lot about mutability or loss/aspirational idealism
He defined the American character
Created the flapper, women were always beautiful
Sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism
Clear, lyrical, colorful, witty style evoked emotions with the time and place
Very descriptive, explained theories of his own through his characters

8. Connections This Side of Paradise was partly autobiographical
All characters in books went to Princeton, had trouble with career/money, drinking problems, went to war, and had marriage and social troubles
Protagonists social troubles were not a result of being Irish or Catholic like his troubles were
In Tender is the Night, protagonist’s wife was a schizophrenic also
Once said, “Sometimes I don’t know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels.”

9. Death Alcoholic since college, wrote sober
When stressed about writing, drinking got worse
Had 2 heart attacks in 1940
After 1st one, Doctor told him to avoid strenuous exertion
Moved to 1st floor in apartment building
Had 2nd one on December 20
Died the next day
Few attended his funeral
May have had tuberculosis-hemorrhage found
Also could have been esophageal varices-enlarged veins in esophagus from alcohol
In the middle of writing The Love of the Last Tycoon
Published later as The Last Tycoon
Died thinking he was a failure

10. Success This Side of Paradise became famous overnight
Got his fame and financial success
F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Awards was named after him
Won two O. Henry Awards

11. The Great Gatsby
Wrote during the summer and fall in Valescure near St. Raphael in France
Revised in Rome
Published on way to Paris
Marked a great advance in his writing technique
Seriously examines the theme of aspiration in the US, defines classic American novel
Made into a movies in 1926
Remade in 1974, more successful
Starring Mia Farrow and Robert Redford
Won 2 Oscars

12. Hope you enjoyed the show!
Created by: Meghan Lamothe
Ms. Arce, English 8, Period 8