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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,He was the most representative novelist of the 1920s.,his next-door neighbor,Nick Carraway,is Daisys relative and he helps,a State Supreme Court judge.,So he began writing The Last Tycoon,a novel about,moneymaking life,and it was this style of living gave the,Daisy again.,entitled The Beautiful and Damned(1922).,different groups of people in the story.,known as the lost generation.,Does this suggest to you any purpose on Fitzgeralds part?,Europe for two and a half years.,What hints does the narrators comment on the moon give you of the atmosphere of the party?,He felt inferior to his classmates from the East Coast.,In order to keep earning money for an extravagant life,people moved from the countryside in great numbers;,He finished the sixth chapter when he died of a heart,His grandfather on his mothers side had a small fortune,in the business.This gave Scott some advantages in a,money-oriented society,and eventually gave him his,expensive education first in a fashionable Catholic,preparatory school in New Jersey and then at Princeton,University in 1913.,At Princeton University he was surrounded by people,richer,more sophisticated and superficially cleverer than,he was.,He felt inferior to his classmates from the East Coast.,But he cut a figure on the football field and made a place,for himself in the university literary groups.,After his failure in the love affairs with Ginevra,a rich,girl from Chicago known as“the belle of the ball,”Scott,fell ill,failed his examinations,and left Princeton without,graduating in 1917.,He decided to fight as a soldier in the First World War,but he was sent for training to Montgomery,Alabama in,the South in 1918.,Although he failed to materialize his strong desire,he,met Zelda Sayre,the beautiful,light-hearted daughter of,a State Supreme Court judge.He fell violently in love,again,but Zelda would marry him on the condition that he,must become rich.,It reflects the new norms of the 1920s which was also,known as the“roaring 20s”,“Jazz Age,”and“Dollar,Decade.”He became rich and famous and married Zelda,a week later.,His life with Zelda furnished his greatest happiness as,well as his greatest misery and pain.The young couple,came to epitomize the kind of Jazz Age style that his,fiction portrays-young,glamorous people who try to live,live the American dream of money,success,and happiness,only to have their lives touched by sadness and even,tragedy.He recognized the sad and frightened side of his,merry,dancing,gambling,and liberated life.,In order to keep earning money for an extravagant life,he wrote short stories for magazines and a second novel,entitled,The Beautiful and Damned(1922).,They all sold,extremely well.People admired him for his spendthrift,life and for his great literary production because this was,the ideal the young Americans pursued in the 1920s.,With perpetual parties,Scott found himself continually,in debt and pressed to write for money.,In desperation he and Zelda moved to France in 1924,where they joined the young American artists and writers,known as the lost generation.,In France,in spring,1925,he met Hemingway.Fitzgerald,was far the better known,but he admired Hemingways,talent and persuaded his publishers to publish,Hemingways next book.But the latter resented owing,favors to anyone and despised Fitzgeralds dissipation of,his gifts.,In 1925,he wrote his best novel,The Great Gatsby,which deals symbolically with the frustration and despair,resulting from the failure of the American dream.It is a,story of an idealist who tries to recapture his lost love,but in vain and is finally destroyed by the influence of the,wealthy people around him.The Fitzgerald stayed in,Europe for two and a half years.,In 1930 Zelda suffered several nervous breakdowns and,was later diagnosed as schizophrenia.This was repeated,and she was placed in a,sanitarium in 1932.,During this,Period Fitzgerald wrote some fine short stories and the,novel,Tender Is the Night(1934,).His fiction grew,significantly deeper and more tragic as his money troubles,increased,as his wifes madness became more destructive,and as he felt himself heading toward the crack-up.,However,they were coldly received then because,with,the Jazz Age over,readers seemed to regard his fiction,as dated and irrelevant.,From 1935 to 1937 he was beset by debts and illness,and discouraged by the failure of his ambitious novel,he,attempted suicide twice.,He was so depressed that his health broke down,physically and spiritually.He drank too much and became,incurably alcoholic.,Not till at the age of 39 he realized that he had wasted,his life.In 1937 he recovered enough to work as a,scriptwriter for films in Hollywood.Sheilah Graham,a,woman journalist,showed great care for him and also,acquainted him with the life of film makers and film stars.,So he began writing,The Last Tycoon,a novel about,Hollywood and the film industry.,He finished the sixth chapter when he died of a heart,attack
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