comfort zones, experimenting with new roles and ideas. Some of these changes included the boom in the average person’s wealth, the change of the role and personality of women, prohibition, and the rise of consumerism in society. These changes, both good and bad, were captured in one of the greatest American novels ever written. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, prompted mainly by his desire to live the “American
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby has inspired many people and other artists, including Hollywood. There have been many movies that were made based off of this famous novel. The most poplar movie for thirty-nine years was Jack Clayton’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby in 1974. Recently in 2013 Baz Luhrmann came out with his film of this widely known story. Whenever movies are made based on books they never fully show every part or they even change some things. In Clayton’s 1974 film
The Great Gatsby, Relations to WWI The Great Gatsby WWI By F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for its portrayal of the Roaring Twenties. The book was published in 1925 and is based off the authors life. The main character, Nick Caraway is very similar to F. Scott Fitzgerald himself. There are other characters in the book such as Jay Gatsby. The book is about a very wealthy time in America, mostly coming from Mr. Fitzgerald’s own experiences. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24,
The Great Gatsby, was a narrative novel written in the 1920’s by a young author named F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story portrayed many of the experiences that Fitzgerald experienced in his own life during the roaring twenties such as all the parties and drinking that was going on. It also accurately showed the pressures that everyone went through to become successful and achieve the american dream. Fitzgerald took these life experiences and represented them in this book, which after his death was named