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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Roy Raymond was born April 15, 1947, in Connecticut. He started an early business at age 13 in Fairfield that produced wedding invitations. [3] He attended Tufts University, graduating in 1969. [3] Raymond earned his master's degree in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1971. [4] [3]
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Letter to Laura Guthrie, 1935 Years later, while drafting The Great Gatsby, rumors dogged Fitzgerald among the American expat community in Paris that he was gay. Soon after, Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Sayre likewise doubted his heterosexuality and asserted that he was a closeted homosexual. She belittled him with homophobic slurs, and she alleged that Fitzgerald and Ernest ...
Jay Gatsby (originally named James Gatz) is the titular fictional character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is an enigmatic nouveau riche millionaire who lives in a luxurious mansion on Long Island where he often hosts extravagant parties and who allegedly gained his fortune by illicit bootlegging during prohibition in the United States. [5]
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter I, The Great Gatsby [54] The character of Daisy Buchanan speaks one sentence in the novel partly drawn from Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Sayre. [ 55 ] When their daughter Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota , on October 26, 1921, Fitzgerald recorded verbatim his wife's rambling as she ...
The Great Gatsby is a 1974 American historical romantic drama film based on the 1925 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film was directed by Jack Clayton , produced by David Merrick , and written by Francis Ford Coppola .
In the closing chapter of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, the title character's father, Henry C. Gatz, explaining his son's early character, is described "...pull[ing] from his pocket a ragged old copy of a book called Hopalong Cassidy. 'Look here, this is a book he had when he was a boy. It just shows you.'" [23]
After reading The Great Gatsby, an impressed Hemingway vowed to put any differences with Fitzgerald aside and to aid him in any way he could, although he feared Zelda would derail Fitzgerald's writing career. [170] Hemingway alleged that Zelda sought to destroy her husband, and she purportedly taunted Fitzgerald over his penis' size. [171]