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{{cquote|[There were] three distinct stages in the political thought of the American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Disenchantment with politics in early boyhood to the 1930's; Interest in [[communism]]; Mature understanding of politics; Disillusion of [[liberal]]s with internationalism ....<ref>http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/9512143538/political-f-scott-fitzgerald-liberal-illusion-disillusion-in-this-side-paradise</ref>}}

{{cquote|[There were] three distinct stages in the political thought of the American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Disenchantment with politics in early boyhood to the 1930's; Interest in [[communism]]; Mature understanding of politics; Disillusion of [[liberal]]s with internationalism ....<ref>http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/9512143538/political-f-scott-fitzgerald-liberal-illusion-disillusion-in-this-side-paradise</ref>}}

His style is more poetic than the style of his contemporaries [[Ernest Hemingway]], whose style was simplistically plain, and [[William Faulkner]], whose style was often insanely abstract.

His style is more poetic than that of his contemporaries [[Ernest Hemingway]], whose style was simplistically plain, and [[William Faulkner]], whose style was often insanely abstract.

==Early life==

==Early life==

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 25, 1896 in [[Saint Paul]], [[Minnesota]], the son of an aristocrat who believed in the code of the Southern gentleman, and a "straight 1850 potato-famine Irish" middle-class mother, as he would later put it.  His father named him after a distant relative, the [[Francis Scott Key|author]] of the [[Star Spangled Banner]].  The mix of an unsuccessful father whom F. Scott admired<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/26402961?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents</ref> (his father Edward lost his job as a salesman when F. Scott was 12 years old) and an energetic mother would cause young F. Scott to grow up with mixed feelings about America, looking at the country as very promising, yet coming up short. He lived in many ordinary homes in Saint Paul which are remarkably well-preserved today.<ref>http://www.fitzgeraldinsaintpaul.org/a-selection-of-saint-paul-sites-of-f-scott-fitzgerald</ref>

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 25, 1896 in [[Saint Paul]], [[Minnesota]], the son of an aristocrat who believed in the code of the Southern gentleman, and a "straight 1850 potato-famine Irish" middle-class mother, as he would later put it.  His father named him after a distant relative, the [[Francis Scott Key|author]] of the [[Star Spangled Banner]].  The mix of an unsuccessful father whom F. Scott admired<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/26402961?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents</ref> (his father Edward lost his job as a salesman when F. Scott was 12 years old) and an energetic mother would cause young F. Scott to grow up with mixed feelings about America, looking at the country as very promising, yet coming up short. He lived in many ordinary homes in Saint Paul which are remarkably well-preserved today.<ref>http://www.fitzgeraldinsaintpaul.org/a-selection-of-saint-paul-sites-of-f-scott-fitzgerald</ref>