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The Great Gatsby F.Scott.Fitzgerald Context Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24 1896 and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key the author of The Star-Spangled Banner. Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul Minnesota. Though an intelligent child he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college and he never graduated instead enlisting in the army in 1917 as World War I neared its end. Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant and was stationed at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him but her overpowering desire for wealth fun and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success. With the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920 Fitzgerald became a literary sensation earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him. Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his most famous novel The Great Gatsby published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Minnesota educated at an Ivy League school in Nick’s case Yale who moves to New York after the war. Also similar to Fitzgerald is Jay Gatsby a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South. Having become a celebrity Fitzgerald fell into a wild reckless life-style of parties and decadence while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money. Similarly Gatsby amasses a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believes will enable him to win Daisy’s love. As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved into the bleakness of the Great Depress