The Great Gatsby Research Paper

Growing up, Francis Scott Fitzgerald had everything he so desired; as an adult his center of attention was on love, fame, glory, and money. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in St, Paul, Minnesota. Francis father Edward Fitzgerald work as an wicker manufacturer in St. Paul. Edward failed as working as an wicker manufacturer. In a result of not being successful in wicker manufacturing business, him and his family moved to New York, Edward found a job as being “a salesman for Procter & Gamble”(fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org). Francis mother Mary McQuillan, was also known as Mollie, she “was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul” (fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org).

After Edward Fitzgerald died in 1908, the Fitzgeralds moved back to St. Paul, they lived off of their mothers inheritance. Mary’s wealth came from her father P.F. McQuillan, he died in 1877. He left her “a million-dollar wholesale grocery business and a personal fortune of over

He worthe The Great Gatsby in France; “the Fitzgeralds spent the winter of 1924-1925 in Rome.” “Where [Francis] revised The Great Gatsby” (fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org). That April in 1925 “The Great Gatsby [was] published” (pbs.org). The critics gave Fitzgerald an excellent rating, but due to the hardship of the economy the book sales were low. It all began in 1926 when people notice a change in “Zelda; [she] begins to develop serious mood swings, and arguments between the couple increased” (Lazo 86 ). In 1927 “Zelda turns to ballet, hoping to become a professional dance” (pbs.org). Two years later the couple moves to France, to help Zelda’s ballet career, when their marriage and her health declined. Zelda “suffered from hallucinations, and a sudden attempt to commit suicide” (Lazo 90). That following year in April, Zelda has her first mental