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F. Scott Fitzgerald Life and Career Major Works Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age The American Dream Case Study Outline Born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 Had an expensive education in private schools at Princeton. Due to illness and neglect of academic study, he left the university in 1917 without graduation. Life and career Married Zelda Sayre, who exerted a strong influence on his literary career and his personal life. She was the prototype of a series of rich, beautiful women who figure prominently in his fiction. The young couple frequently went abroad and lived extravagantly a luxurious life. To keep earning enough money, Fitzgerald wrote short stories and novels at a rapid speed. The 1930s brought relentless decline for Fitzgerald with a series of misfortunes: his reputation declined, his wealth fell, his health failed. Zelda had suffered from some serious mental breakdowns which confined her in a sanitarium(疗养院) for the rest of her life. Alcoholism, loneliness and despair combined to ruin Fitzgerald. He died in 1940 of a heart attack. Major works novel This Side of Paradise《天堂的另一面》: His first novel. It won for him wealth and fame. The Beautiful and Damned 《漂亮冤家》又名《美丽与毁灭》 The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比/长岛春梦》: His masterpiece. It made him one of the greatest American novelists. Tender is the Night《夜色温柔》 . The Last Tycoon《最后的大亨》: His last novel. It remains unfinished. Major works short stories: Flappers and Philosophers (1921)《时髦女和哲学家》 Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) 《爵士乐时代的故事》 All the Sad Young Man (1926) 《一代悲哀的年轻人》 Taps at Reveille (1935) 《早晨的起床号》 Babylon Revisited（1931）《重访巴比伦》 Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age The Jazz Age: It refers to the 1920s, a time marked by frivolity(轻松快活), carelessness, hedonism(享乐主义) and excitement in the life of the flaming youth. Fitzgerald is largely responsible for the term