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Although the authors us fictitious characters and events, novels are often surprisingly close portraits of their ageAlthough the authors us fictitious characters and events, novels areoften surprisingly finished portraits of their time. To what extent doyou think The Great Gatsby is a novel of this figure?The Great Gatsby, written in the early 1920s, by F. Scott Fitzgeraldportrays the type of last class animateness the rich were living during thistime. Extravagance was the key to everything, parties, drinking, cars,relationships, and life. Everybody seemed to stick money. This time wasknown as The Roaring 20s, or The Golden 20s. We see this type ofculture in its uttermost in The Great Gatsby. We can also assume thatit was this type of life that Fitzgerald himself led. He was born intoa fairly well-to-do family. In 1896 he attended, but never graduatedfrom, Princeton University. It was here he mingled with the moneyedclasses from the easterly Seaboard who created an obsession for therest of his life. In 1917 he was drafted into the army, but he neversaw active service abroad. He married the charming Zelda Sayre andtogether they embarked on a rich life of endless parties. Dividingtheir time in the midst of America and fashionable resorts in Europe, theFitzgeralds became as illustrious for their lifestyle as for the novelshe wrote. Sometimes I dont know whether Zelda and I are real orwhether we are characters in one of my novels, which he wrote to payfor his extravagant lifestyle.We can see just how similar Gatsby and Fitzgerald are. Gatsby, opposedFitzgerald was born into a fairly poor family, but soon met Dan Codyand Daisy, who, both very rich led him to the obsession to also becomerich. I believe it was mainly the influence of daisy for this. He wasdesperately in chicane with her, but stood no chance all the while he hadno money. She only married you because I was poor and she was tiredof waiting for me. overly like Fitzgerald, Gatsby went to Univ ersityand never finished. It was in nineteen nineteen, I only stayed quintetmonths. Thats why I cant really chaffer myself an Oxford man. Gatsbywas also in the army during the war, Why yes, I was in the twenty eighth infantry. The only major difference we can see between the twomen is that Gatsby never married the beautiful Daisy. He never doit to marriage, this could possibly be because he never had money,unlike Fitzgerald, who made his money, and then met Zelda.