An autobiographical portrayal of F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby, in The

Dreaming The Impossible Dream: An autobiographical portrayal of F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby, in The Great Gatsby Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald, born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, is seen today as one of the true great American novelists. Although he lived a life filled with alcoholism, despair, and lost-love, he managed to create the ultimate love story and seemed to pinpoint the “American Dream” in his classic novel, The Great Gatsby. In the novel, …

…someone who had actually endured such feelings. For in The Great Gatsby, “Fitzgerald uses fiction to tell his own story-- reflecting on the superior and brutal qualities of the rich and on the impossibility of becoming one of them” (Meyers, 123). REFERENCES Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1970. Meyers, Jeffrey. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994. Priestly, J.B.. The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald. London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1958.