Breaking Down Fitzgerald

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Helen M. Turner. Breaking Down Fitzgerald

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BREAKING DOWN FITZGERALD

Breaking Down Fitzgerald: Introduction

Chapter 1 Fitzgerald's Life

CHILDHOOD AND PRINCETON (1896–1917)

MEETING ZELDA AND EARLY SUCCESS (1918–1924)

THE GREAT GATSBY AND EUROPEAN TRAVELS (1924–1931)

TENDER IS THE NIGHT AND “THE CRACK‐UP” (1931–1937)

HOLLYWOOD AND THE LAST TYCOON (1937–1940)

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Chapter 2 Literary and Cultural Context

THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH

MODERNISM AND A CHANGING LITERARY LANDSCAPE

THE ROARING TWENTIES

THE 1930S AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

THE UNITED STATES VERSUS EUROPE

CHANGES IN HOLLYWOOD

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Chapter 3 Early Novels: This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE: COMPOSITION

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE: SYNOPSIS

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED: COMPOSITION

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED: SYNOPSIS

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Chapter 4 The Great Gatsby (1925)

COMPOSITION

SYNOPSIS

THEMES

STRUCTURE

MOTIFS

The Green Light

West Egg versus East Egg

The Valley of Ashes

The Automobile

CHARACTERS

Jay Gatsby

Daisy Buchanan

Tom Buchanan

Myrtle Wilson

George Wilson

Jordan Baker

Nick Carraway

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Chapter 5 Later Novels: Tender Is the Night (1934) and The Last Tycoon (1941)

TENDER IS THE NIGHT: COMPOSITION

TENDER IS THE NIGHT: SYNOPSIS

TENDER IS THE NIGHT: INTERPRETATIONS

THE LAST TYCOON: SYNOPSIS

THE LAST TYCOON: REFLECTIONS ON AN UNFINISHED NOVEL

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Chapter 6 Short Stories and Essays

SHORT STORIES

“The Ice Palace” (1920)

“May Day” (1920)

“Winter Dreams” (1922)

“Jacob's Ladder” (1927)

“The Last of the Belles” (1929)

“Babylon Revisited” (1931)

ESSAYS

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Conclusion

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HELEN M. TURNER

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Fitzgerald spent the remainder of 1924 and the early months of 1925 revising the galley proofs of his novel, which after a series of name changes was now called The Great Gatsby. Much of this work was undertaken in Italy, where the Fitzgeralds spent a number of months in both Rome and Capri. During the process he was in regular contact with his editor, Max Perkins, at Scribner's. In a letter dated October 10, 1924, Fitzgerald wrote to him about an upcoming writer that he had heard of but (up to that point) had not met but believed he would be a good fit for Perkins's editorship. “This is to tell you about a young man named Ernest Hemmingway [sic], who lives in Paris, (an American) writes for the Transatlantic Review + has a brilliant future … I'd look him up right away. He's the real thing” (Fitzgerald 1994, p. 82).

On April 10, 1925, The Great Gatsby was published. Now widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, at the time of its publication its significance was missed by the book‐buying public and it had a critical reception that was mixed at best. The initial print run was 20,870 copies priced at $2.00. In August, an additional 3,000 copies were printed, some of which “were still in Scribner's warehouse when Fitzgerald died” (Bruccoli 2002, p. 217). Fellow writers such as Willa Cather and Edith Wharton wrote to Fitzgerald to express their admiration for the novel. Indeed, poet T. S. Eliot had read it three times when he declared it “the first step American fiction has taken since Henry James” in a letter to the author dated December 31, 1925 (Eliot 2009, p. 813). However, the novel failed to have the impact that Fitzgerald had hoped it would have and the disappointment was not easily—if ever—shaken.

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