Born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, and baptized in early October, he had for parents the feckless son of an old, shabby-genteel Maryland Catholic family and the daughter of an Irish immigrant grown wealthy as a wholesale grocer.

It's where the price is paid in garbage for both the city and the Long Island estates, and wherewhen Myrtle is run down at the end of the novel by Daisy's carthe price is paid in death for both Gatsby's poverty-stricken striving and Daisy and Tom's wealthy carelessness. There was the bizarre tale Atonement, which he originally intended to be part of The Great Gatsby, about a boy who lies in the confessional and a priest who goes mad.

His Catholic heaven is not so far away that he can be misled into mistaking the shoddy dreams of a radical millennium as a substitute for Paradise. Or a secretly judgmental critic? Anna scored in the 99th percentile on her SATs in high school, and went on to major in English at Princeton and to get her doctorate in English Literature at Columbia. The phrase " whenever you feel like criticizing anyone" makes it sound Unlike the novel's epigraph, which really is advice on what to do, Nick's father's words seem more like either This means that during the rest of the novel, this snobbishness and this tendency to dismiss everyone else as being inferior is something to watch for in Nick's description of other people and events.Nick spends the first paragraphs of the novel encouraging us to trust him and to believe in his impartiality and good judgment. Fitzgerald himself saw it. Though there were some peculiar Catholic misreadings of his work (a wealthy Minnesota woman thought the brilliant young Catholic writer perfect to write a biography of St. Paul's archbishop, John Ireland), Fitzgerald complained to Leslie about Catholic denunciations of his work as immoralwhen, apart from a mild literary review in America, there were none.Scott and Zelda fled to Europe in 1924 in an attempt to cut down on the drinking, work on the manuscript that would become The Great Gatsby, and learn some financial management. And above it floats an image Fitzgerald evokes again and again through the novel: an enormous billboard of a giant pair of glasses, advertising Dr. Eckleburg, a long bankrupt optometrist whose eyes seem to watch the characters like God's.The critic Alfred Kazin once rightly warned against trying to find more in Fitzgerald's Catholicism than he ever put into it. Beyond James Gatz, beyond Jay Gatsby. That's James Joyce. Living with his mistress, the movie columnist Sheilah Graham (whom he made move out whenever his daughter visited), he began The Last Tycoon in 1939, writing more than half a working draft before his death of a heart attack in 1940 at age forty-four. In an early piece of juvenilia called The Ordeal, Fitzgerald wrote of his own youthful visit to his Jesuit cousin, and in Benediction he transfers from himself to a nineteen-year-old girl the visitor's experience of being simultaneously an outsider and in the presence of genuine righteousness. It might be the epigraph for all of Fitzgerald's books. First, it gives us our first idea of the narrator, and the type of narration we're going to encounter. It might be the epigraph for all of Fitzgerald's books. ~Studs Terkel Epitaphs • an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there •a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person •An epitaph (from Greek: '' epi-taphios "at,over-tomb" -- literally: "on the

The best Catholic novels seem to be written by those who know, no matter how far they've fallen in faith and morals, that the truth is there.The best Catholic fiction is always written by the worst Catholics. (1.1-2)The " advice" from his father seems really more like a dig at Nick. She is passionate about improving student access to higher education.Have any questions about this article or other topics? He wanted to escape the fallen condition of man; he wanted his characters to want to escape the fallen condition of man. And there was Benediction, which appeared in his first collection of jazz Age stories, Flappers and Philosophers, and tells the story of an upper-class Catholic girl who (on her way to give up her virginity to her lover) stops off to visit her brother at a Jesuit seminary in Maryland. But pay someone must, and Dr. Eckleburg sees. This Side of Paradise is dedicated, in fact, to Sigourney Fay, the worldly priest who stood for a time as spiritual (and surrogate) father to the author, and Fay appears, very lightly disguised as Monsignor Thayer Darcy, throughout the book's semi-autobiographical tale of a handsome, pampered, and yet still idealistic young Princeton student named Amory Blaine.So, too, Fitzgerald published two explicitly Catholic short stories in the days of his great success. Whatever you can possibly do to attract her attention is worth it if she ends up won over, because then she will be insatiable (" I must have you" ). I'm sick of Chesterton, he has Amory Blaine complain in This Side of Paradise, and he replied to Wilson: I am ashamed to say that my Catholicism is scarcely more than a memoryno that's wrong, it's more than that; at any rate I go not to church nor mumble stray nothings over crystalline beads.Dorothy Parker was right: The poor son-of-a-bitch.

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