-Author of The Great Gatsby.
-handsom, athletic, good dancer
-wanted to belong to Princeton
-since childhood, he always wondered if he had the down power to higher, more respectable people. (he got that idea from a nursery book)
-in 1916, Fitzgerald withdrew from Princeton
-he served in the U.S. Army
-Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940 (aged 44) of a heart attack due to heavy drinking

-The "Jazz Age" is a term coined by Fitzgerald Jazz to describe the wider cultural changes during the period, and its influence on pop culture.
-Youth used the influence of jazz to rebel against the traditional culture of previous generations.

-After the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, the Fitzgeralds became celebrities.
-She was an icon on the 1920's, her husband called her the first American flapper
-A flapper was a "new breed" of young western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, wore makeup, talked about sex and smoke in public.
-Married Fitzgerald on April 3, 1920
-died on March 10, 1948 in a fire at a mental hospital.

-Published on April 10, 1925
-The Great Gatsby, now considered to be Fitzgerald's masterpiece, did not become popular until after his death.
-Mostly women (who stayed at home) read it.
-the general public believed it to be nothing more than a nostalgic period piece.

-justice
-power
-greed
-betrayal
-The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s
-The Hollowness of the Upper Class

-a set of ideas in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success and an upward social mobility achieved through hard word.
-The novel represents the American Dream of the main characters as becoming materialistic and as an empty pursuit of pleasure.
-Fitzgerald's American Dream was to be and do the best he or anybody else could.