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THE GREAT GATSBY 了不起的盖茨比----菲斯杰拉德 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896?– December 21, 1940) was an American?novelist?and?short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the?Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest?American writers?of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s. He finished four novels:?This Side of Paradise,The Beautiful and Damned,?The Great Gatsby?(his best known), and?Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel,?The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote numerous short stories, many of which treat themes of youth and promise, and age and despair. Set on the prosperous Long Island of 1922, The Great Gatsby provides a critical social history of America during the Roaring Twenties within its narrative. That era, known for unprecedented economic prosperity, the evolution of jazz music, flapper culture, and bootlegging and other criminal activity, is plausibly depicted in Fitzgeralds novel. Fitzgerald uses these societal developments of the 1920s to build Gatsbys stories from simple details like automobiles to broader themes like Fitzgeralds discreet allusions to the organized crime culture which was the source of Gatsbys fortune. Fitzgerald was a young man from Minnesota, and like Nick, he was educated at an Ivy League school, Princeton (in Nicks case, Yale). Fitzgerald is also similar to Jay Gatsby, in that he fell in love while stationed far from home in the military and fell into a life of decadence trying to prove himself to the girl he loved. Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her preference for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success.[8] Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgeral