Context Flashcards
What prestigious theatrical club was Fitzgerald a member of in college?
The Triangle Club
What was a major struggle that Fitzgerald fought his entire life?
Alcoholism
What is the term for the girl that all the boys want, but none can obtain?
The golden girl
Who was Ginevra King?
She was the golden girl that Fitzgerald pursued at Princeton. Her father told Fitzgerald that “poor boys don’t marry rich girls”
Inspiration for Daisy
Who did F Scott Fitzgerald end up marrying?
Zelda Sayre
Why did Zelda break off their first engagement?
She said that he was not making enough money. Did not believe in him.
Zelda became bored while Fitzgerald worked on the great Gatsby. What did she do to deal with her boredom?
She cheated on Fitzgerald with a French aviator, Edouard Jozan
When Fitzgerald died, was his funeral heavily attended?
No. Just like Gatsby’s.
How did Zelda die in 1948?
A fire burned down the building that she was in, Highland Hospital
What quote is printed onto F. Scott Fitzgerald’s grave stone?
“So we beat on, boats against current. Borne back ceaselessly into the past”
Where is Fitzgerald buried?
Rockville, Maryland
How did f scott fitzgerald die?
Fitzgerald died of a heart attack after suffering with alcoholism.
Fitzgerald and war
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton and took a commission as a second lieutenant in the army. Worried he might die in battle, he began frantically writing in his off-hours in the hopes of leaving behind a literary legacy.
Just like Gatsby?
When and where was Fitzgerald born? And to who?
Born in 1898 in Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family
When did he marry Zelda?
1920
Celebrity status
Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless lifestyle of parties and decadence due to his celebrity status, while trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money.
What did Fitzgerald refer the 1920’s as?
‘The Jazz Age’
Popularity of Gatsby
did not become popular until after Fitzgerald’s death
How did Gatsby meet Zelda?
fitzgerald met zelda when he was stationed near her home
Like how gatsby met Daisy?
Fitzgerald’s attempt at getting Zelda back (impressing her)
wrote ‘This side of paradise’ and wanted it to get published quickly as he thought it would help him win zelda back
What quote did Zelda say when giving birth?
“i hope it’s a beautiful fool”
SOUNDS LIKE DAISY
Fitzgerald’s kid
Frances Scott Fitzgerald
How long did Fitzgerald live in NYC?
1922 to 1924
2 YEARS
How does Fitzgerald’s public life relate to Gatsby?
Fitzgerald hosted a lot of parties in Long Island
Fitzgerald and Gatsby - past
same with fitzgerald - wants to return to their early love. He wants to impress Zelda to get her back
Define ‘flappers’
carefree young women with short, “bobbed” hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts.
The flapper symbolized the new “liberated” woman of the 1920s.
Harvard psychologist argued they had the ‘lowest degree of intelligence’
green light relating to Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald trying to attain a successful career and write the american novel
magazine ‘town tattlers’ in Myrtles apartment (link to Fitzgerald)
links to zeldas and fitzgerald’s lives being in the media
Representation of Jordan Baker / Gatsby (in Fitzgerald’s own life)
Fitzgerald met a woman named Sheila (upper class) but he found out she had lied to him and her accent was fake
Where did Fitzgerald begin writing the novel?
Paris
Who is Meyer Wolfsheim based on?
Arnold Rothstein, nicknamed “the Brain”, was an American racketeer, businessman and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York.
What novel made Fitzgerald a star?
This Side of Paradise, in 1920
Fitzgerald’s wife mental health
In 1930, Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent her remaining years in and out of various mental health clinics.
When did Zelda and Fitzgerald get married? Where?
April 3, 1920, St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Zelda was given the title “__________________”
Queen of the Flappers
Fitzgerald wrote for magazines such as…
Saturday Evening Post
When was The Great Gatsby published?
Spring 1925
Fitzgerald’s works were rediscovered in this decade.
1950s
Fitzgerald’s father’s failure that failed to inspire him.
Like Gatsby’s dad in not paying attention to him?
Edward Fitzgerald failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture
How much money was Fitzgerald making when Zelda doubted him?
$35 a week
How did people respond (like/dislike) Fitzgerald’s first published novel, This Side of
Paradise?
It sold out after the first day.
What is the title of Fitzgerald’s second published novel? What is the novel about?
It is titled The Beautiful and Damned. It is about a happy couple who drank, fought, and became self destructive
RELATES TO HIM AND ZELDA
What is tragic about Fitzgerald’s death?
He died while he was in the middle of writing another novel, he died believing himself a failure.
How Gatsby will have felt if he didn’t get Daisy!
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Speakeasy
An illegal bar during prohibition, Gatsby and Nick meet Wolfsheim at a speakeasy in Chapter
most people believed he was a what
an alcoholic who struggled with depression
how did he redeem himself
through his writing
