Concetti Chiave
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald, an influential American author, began his writing career while attending Princeton University.
- His relationship with Zelda Sayre was pivotal; their marriage followed his literary success, but was marred by Zelda's mental health issues.
- "The Great Gatsby" is Fitzgerald's most famous work, encapsulating the materialism and superficiality of the "Roaring Twenties".
- The novel explores themes of love and the futile pursuit of the past through the character of Gatsby, juxtaposed with Daisy's carelessness.
- Nick, Daisy's cousin, narrates the story, offering a subjective view of the events, highlighting the moral contrasts between the West and the East.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1846-1940) attended Princeton and started writing while he was still a student. He joined the Army but he didn’t fight in the war; while he was abroad he met Zelda Sayre: he deeply fell in love with her, and asked her to marry him. She first refused to marry him because he was not rich enough, then she accepted the proposal after his great success with “This side of paradise”. Fitzgerald had to work hard in order to maintain their high standard of living and to pay clinics after Zelda had had a nervous breakdown and had become insane.
Fitzgerald’s most famous work is “The Great Gatsby”, which portrays the mentality, the snobbishness and materialism of the “Roaring Twenties” or “Jazz Age”; it is a shallow society, made up of richness, parties and entertainment, which actually hide the emptiness of modern life and the loss of values. However, Gatsby is somehow a Romantic hero, because he deeply loves Daisy, and attempts in vain to revive the past; Daisy, on the opposite side, is the symbol of carelessness, and, unable to face problems or to act by herself, she just runs away with her husband, hiding behind her richness. In the novel there is also the contrast between the West, simple but even moral and puritan, and the East, sophisticated, fascinated but corrupted.
The story is told by Daisy’s cousin, Nick, so all the events are filtered by his own point of view.
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