Fitzgeralds life in Fiction

Almost all of Fitzgerald’s writings are somewhat autobiographical in some way. During the beginning of his success, he was living in the Golden Twenties, however, he always “wrote with clinical depression” (Fitzgerald, viii.) This is obvious, because his main characters always seem to fall into either depression, or complete demise. Two novels that demonstrate this, are The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. A short publication of Fitzgerald’s journal called, “The Jazz Age,” reve…

…t” of NYC. Where all of the people he has met has left a part of them onto him and created the Fitzgerald that has written The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. F. Scott Fitzgerald was trying to subtly explain that life is not easy. He used examples from his own life. He also tried to portray the pain and hatred he felt by becoming a character.