1Francis Scott Fitzgerald birth date, place, and parents
1896, Minnesota, Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan (mollie)
2How are his parents different
The dad has been in America for a long time but is broke. The mom parents are Irish immigrants who arrived to America late but they have money and power because they own a sucessful grocery empire.
3What factory did fitzgerald dad own in Minnesota
wicker factory
4Where did the Edward Fitzgerald move his family to
New York state
5Where did Fitzgeralds move back to
St. paul
6Where did fitzgerald attend school at his whole life.(3 different schools)
St. Paul Academy, Newman School in New Jersy, and Princeton University
7Who did fitzgerald fall in Love with at Princeton
Ginevra King
8What were Ginevra King parents bakgorund
Her mom was a wealthy socialite and father was a sucessful stockbroker.
9What did King father say to Fitzgerald
“poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls”
10What purpose did the breakup with Ginevra serve in the Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby’s longing for Daisy Buchanan
11What interests id Fitzgerald develop in Princeton
Theater
12Who did Fitzgerald surround himself with
Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop
13What did fiztgerald do when he was failing to graduate from Princeton
Fitzgerald enrolled for the WW1 army
14What bases did Fitzgerald stayed at
Ft. Leavenworth in Kansas and Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama
15Who did Fitzgerald meet
Zelda Sayre
16How is Zelda Sayre different despite her being in a “proper” Southern family
She had different attitude and behavior known as “new woman”, she would sneak out to country clubs
17When happened after fitzgerald got discharged from the Army
In 1919, Fitzgerald promised a mairrage to Zelda
18What was Fitzgerald first job
writing job, crafting marketing copy for the Barron Collier ad agency
19What happened when fitzgerald meet Ginevra at Montgomery
She broke off the engagement, and Fitzgerald moved to St. Paul
20What was Fitzgerald first novel
This Side of Paradise
21Who published the novel and when
Published by Chares Scriber Sons in 1920
22What happened after the novel The side of Paradise was published
Fitzgerald got back with Zelda and they married
23How many copies did The side of Paradise make in the first year
40,000
24How much did fitzgerald earn in 1920
19,000
25What happened during spring of 1920
Fitzgerald and Zelda just got fame and cahs so they went out to party an to expensive hotels in Commodore Hotel, which he eventually got kicked out of the htel
26What happened in the summer of 1920
Fitzgerald moved with Zelda to Connecticut
27What is Fitzgerald second novel
The beatutiful and dammaed published in 1922
28What happened one year before the puhblish of The beautiful and dammed
Their daughte scottie was bron in October 1921
29What bothered fitzgerald
He was not seen as an adavnce artists by his peers because his novels didn’t do exordinary.
30Who reviewed the Beautiful and Dammaed and what did they say
The New York Times described it as well written but has a pseudo realism which meanss shutting a persons eyes to all good in human nature
31What inspired East and West egg in The Great Gatby
The place fitzgerald moved to called Great Neck, Long Island
32What play did he write
The Vegetable bombed
33What happened after hus theatrical carer hit him
He started to drink a lot
34What happened at France trip in 1924
Fitzgerald wife Zelda flirted with Ediuard Joan, young French airman at Valescure which starined their mairage. Fitzgerald began writing his third novel, The Great Gatsby
35What did Frances Kerr comment of The Great Gatsby
He brought up the fact that fitzgerald wanted to make this novel clearner, and less excessive of the Jazz Age but not too simple or gauy which he achieved.
36What were the title options for the Great Gatsby
Trimalchio in West Egg, Gold- hatted Gatsby, On the road to west egg, and Under te Red, White, and Blue
37Who was Fiztgerald editorfor the Great Gatsby
Max Perkins
38What did Max Perkins say about the first draft of Great Gatsby
He said that it was an improvemnet but felt that the titular character needed work
39When was the Great Gatsby oficially published
April 1925
40What did Edwin Clark say about fitzgerald book
A galmourous story that talks deep about life
41How does The Great Gatsby compared to The beatutiful and dammed and this side of paradise
The Great Gatsby sold the worst out of the two
42Which rich American author did Gatsby meet which he referred to as expats
Ernest Hemingay, Gertrude Stein, Gerald and Sara murphy
43In an attempt to receneter where did the fitzgerald move to and year?
The fitzgerald moved back to United Sates, deleware 1927.
44What did passion did Zelda decide on
Ballet
45Where did they move to in 1928
France
46What happened to Zelda in 1930
She had an acute mental breakdown which she got treatment at the Swiss hopsital
47What were all the hospitals zelda got treated at
Baltimore, Maryland, and Ashviell, North Carolina
48What is Fitzgerald fourth novel and when was it published
Tender is the night, 1934
49What did John Camberlain commet in Fitzgerald novel the Tender is the Night
He mentioned “A lack of critical consesus can sometimes signl a misunderstood masterpiece or an experiment that will only be appreciated in time. In the case of tender Is the Night the critical uncertanty meant that the novel didn’t make much of an impact.
50When did Fitzgerald reputation declined
1934
51What did fitzgerald do in 1936
He published a series of autobiographical eassays detailing his “crack up”
52Who edited his essays”
Edmund Wilson
53What did Michael Mok say about Fitzgerald’s interview
He mentions that he is a washed- up druk and Fitzgerald is self- pitying that introspective.
54Where did Fitzgerald recieve credit from
The three comrades (1938)
55Who did he fall inlove with in his later years
Sheila Graham
56What is Fitzgerald unfinished work
The Last Tycoon
57What is the last tycoon about
The hypocrasies and complex of America obsession with Movie industry
58When and why did fitzgerald died
1940 at 44 years old due to a heart attack from ecessive drinking
59Who finished the Last Tycoon for him
Edmund Wilson and published in 1941
60What did Fiztgerald leave behind
He made 180 short stroies and 5 novels (4 completed)
61What does lionel say about fitzgerald
Fitzgerald is anle to create characters who represent most important moral concerns of the nation
62Who is Nick Carraway
A midwesterner who serves in WW1
63Who was fitzgerald inspired by
Joseph Conrad