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| | [[Image:6357ytfhg.jpg|right|thumb|F. Scott Fitzgerald]] | | [[Image:6357ytfhg.jpg|right|thumb|F. Scott Fitzgerald]] |
| − | '''F. Scott Fitzgerald''' (1896-1940), American writer who described the social climate of the 1920s in 160 short stories and four novels in which he sought to portray the rise and fall of the American Dream against the turbulent backdrop of the [[Jazz Age]]; his most famous book - ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' (1925)<ref>http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/</ref> - is considered one of the great works of 20th century literature. | + | '''F. Scott Fitzgerald''' (1896-1940), [[America]]n writer who described the social climate of the 1920s in 160 short stories and four novels in which he sought to portray the rise and fall of the American Dream against the turbulent backdrop of the Jazz Age; his most famous book - ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' (1925)<ref>http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/</ref> - is considered one of the greatest works of 20th century literature. ''The Great Gatsby'' is complimentary towards the [[free market]] and [[capitalism]]. |
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| | + | F. Scott Fitzgerald was opposed to [[globalism]], and broke from [[liberals]] over that issue: |
| | + | {{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 liberals with internationalism ....<ref>http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/9512143538/political-f-scott-fitzgerald-liberal-illusion-disillusion-in-this-side-paradise</ref>}} |
| | ==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 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. | | 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 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. |
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| | ===''The Great Gatsby''=== | | ===''The Great Gatsby''=== |
| − | In 1921 Zelda gave birth to a daughter, Francis, whom they both nicknamed "Scottie". In his ledger - which he kept up continually - Fitzgerald noted a remark made by Zelda prior to going into labor. "I hope it's beautiful and a fool," she said. "A beautiful little fool!" Fitzgerald used this remark and other portions of his life in his third novel, ''The Great Gatsby'', a story told by the protagonist Nick Carraway of his single summer on Long Island and his fateful friendship with his next-door neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a self-made man who made it all just for the love of a woman who lived across the bay. He had the compulsive yet subtle [[insight]] of the ''[[femme fatale]]'' theme, the All-American banality of [[woman as destroyer]].<ref>http://fitzgerald.narod.ru/critics-eng/fiedler-somenotes.html</ref> | + | In 1921 Zelda gave birth to a daughter, Francis, whom they both nicknamed "Scottie". In his ledger - which he kept up continually - Fitzgerald noted a remark made by Zelda prior to going into labor. "I hope it's beautiful and a fool," she said. "A beautiful little fool!" Fitzgerald used this remark and other portions of his life in his third novel, ''The Great Gatsby'', a story told by the protagonist Nick Carraway of his single summer on Long Island and his fateful friendship with his next-door neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a self-made man who made it all just for the love of a woman who lived across the bay. He had the compulsive yet subtle [[insight]] of the ''[[femme fatale]]'' theme, the All-American banality of woman as destroyer.<ref>http://fitzgerald.narod.ru/critics-eng/fiedler-somenotes.html</ref> |
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| | ==Later life== | | ==Later life== |