The text of the biography can be found at
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html
1. Identify and explain how the following excerpt is ironic. Be sure to include specific examples from the text to support your response. After, reflect on what pressures and forces you think impacted the Fitzgeralds to live the way they did. (1/2 page)
During the 1920s (Fitzgerald’s) income from all sources averaged under $25,000 a year - good money at a time when a schoolteacher’s average annual salary was $1,299, but not a fortune. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald did spend money faster than he earned it; the author who wrote so eloquently about the effects of money on character was unable to manage his own finances.
2. Consider the following excerpt and respond to the prompt below.
When critics objected to Fitzgerald’s concern with love and success, his response was: “But, my God! it was my material, and it was all I had to deal with.” The chief theme of Fitzgerald’s work is aspiration - the idealism he regarded as defining American character. Another major theme was mutability (capable of being changed) or loss.
How is Fitzgerald similar to and different from Dexter Green, Nick Carraway, and Jay Gatsby? In what ways are Daisy Buchanan and Zelda Fitzgerald similar? (1/2 page)
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