https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov Hanna Ahmed en-us 2018-09-27 14:29:53 UTC 2025-10-03 10:18:40 UTC hello@padlet.com 202100 https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286542852 "The belief that learning the author's life will influence our knowledge and comprehension of their work."
Look at how personal characteristics such as opinion, gender, age, social class, or lifestyle may affect the plot of the story. ]]> 2018-09-27 14:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286542852 202100 https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286560047 "I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you've got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends- in the modern world." (137)

Fitzgerald came from a middle class family. He portrays a lot of personal aspects of his life through Gatsby, however, he does use his novel to criticize

]]> 2018-09-27 14:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286560047 202100 https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286561160 “She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby-nothing.”(pg 157)

Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald may have felt a class division between himself and Zelda, her father was successful as a judge, and his father was not. The idea of old money vs new money also comes in. Though Gatsby is not wealthy at that point in the novel, the idea that his past economic position dictates the future of his social class is significant. ]]> 2018-09-27 14:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286561160 202100 https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286564014 Fitzgerald portrays his personal life through many different characters. Fitzgerald portrays his past middle class life through Nick. Fitzgerald went to Yale, just like Nick did. He portrays his love life through Gatsby. Similar to Gatsby, Fitzgerald joined the war and found himself deeply in love while he is stationed. Gatsby has this strong desire to impress Daisy with his wealth, similar to how Fitzgerald goes to New York for a good job to impress Zelda. And like Daisy, Zelda breaks off her relationship with Fitzgerald. ]]> 2018-09-27 15:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286564014 202100 https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286566688 Fitzgerald's parents were not financially successful, however he was able to pursue his career and go to Princeton. He was a part of a society called the Triangle Club. He later left Princeton and joined the army. He was stationed in Alabama where he met the love of his life Zelda Sayre. He then moved to New York to make enough money to impress Zelda, but she broke off the engagement. He wrote a book that became successful, and later married Zelda. After being exposed to so much fame, him, his wife, and their daughter escaped to Riviera. In France he wrote the hit The Great Gatsby. When he got back, everything fell apart. His wife had mental breakdowns, and he became an alcoholic. Later he met Sheilah Graham who he secretly met with. ]]> 2018-09-27 15:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286566688 202100 https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286735304 “.. [she was] more charming than ever and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of freshness of many clothes and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.” (pg 157)

Fitzgerald struggled like Gatsby, and Zelda may have been well to do like Daisy. Fitzgerald portrays his class difference through Gatsby and Daisy.]]> 2018-09-27 20:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286735304 202100 https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286785529 “However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders. So he made the most of his time. He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously- eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand.”(pg 156)

Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to portray his own life. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald came from a not very wealthy family and eventually became rich later on in his life. Gatsby felt that Daisy was too good, too rich for him. Did Fitzgerald feel the same way about Zelda?]]> 2018-09-28 01:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286785529 202100 https://padlet.com/202100/gdgkyph4aaov/wish/286787402 "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife."(pg 137)

Tom talks down to Gatsby by calling him "Mr. Nobody" and coming from "Nowhere." By capitalizing "Nowhere," Tom makes Gatsby sound like he is actually from nowhere; his town is insignificant, his home is insignificant, and his poor family, which gave him his poor start, makes him insignificant. Tom feels that his old money is superior to Gatsby. Fitzgerald, like Gatsby, represents new money. He came from a middle class family that just got by. Through out the novel, he portrays a lot of personal aspects through Gatsby, like his love life, his military work, and now his financial past. Did Fitzgerald feel that Zelda broke off their engagement because of a man with old money? He eventually marries Zelda, but maybe he wants to show how new money will always struggle, unlike old money.

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