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Amory Blaine, a handsome, conceited young man from the Midwest raised by his eccentric, wealthy mother, goes to Princeton dreaming of becoming a great…
Amory Blaine, a handsome, conceited young man from the Midwest raised by his eccentric, wealthy mother, goes to Princeton dreaming of becoming a great figure. Through his college years, the First World War and its aftermath, he falls in and out of love with a series of girls, among them the debutante Rosalind, who leaves him for a richer man, and drifts from ambition to disillusion, ending with the cry, 'I know myself, but that is all.'
Context and significance
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) published his first novel in 1920, at twenty-three, and its picture of a new generation of restless, pleasure-seeking young Americans made him famous overnight; it also persuaded Zelda Sayre, on whom Rosalind was partly based, to marry him. Read his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby.
About the author
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was born in St Paul, Minnesota, left Princeton for the army and became famous at twenty-three with his first novel, This Side of Paradise. He married the brilliant Zelda Sayre, named the Jazz Age and lived its glamour in New York and on the French Riviera.
The Great Gatsby (1925), now considered one of the greatest American novels, sold poorly in his lifetime. Zelda's illness, debts and drink darkened his later years, and he died in Hollywood at forty-four, writing film scripts and believing himself a failure.