Deeper Into Gatsby

Before reading this article, I greatly enjoyed the novel yet I was not familiar and did not know F. Scott Fitzgerald’s background or why and how he came up with this well-know “American Novel”. After reading the article I was able to learn many new things about Fitzgerald and what prompted him to write his most famous novel, as well as how I learned his struggles similar to Jay Gatsby’s.

I learned how Fitzgerald’s inspiration was due to his personal life problems as he “was deemed too poor to be considered a suitor”. Yet with his publishing of his first novel he was able to marry one of his love interests, Zelda Sayre. This reflects a lot with Gatsby and his story in relation to his personal struggles due to the label of being poor and the lack of fortune that would find him due to that same label.

I also learned from this article that Fitzgerald was adored by many famous writers after the publishing of the Great Gatsby, yet many critics were judgmental about the American novel that raised millions. This article provided and allowed me to further understand The Great Gatsby, yet I am still trying to figure out what the cover of the woman means behind the blue background, although the article provided a brief explanation of how it might signify Daisy, and I don’t disagree.

The article provides a variety of listed facts about background of the Great Gatsby, and although I wish I had come across this before reading the novel, I am glad I got a chance to read it due to the depth in analyzation that this article has provided me.