A&E Fitzgerald Biography Response Part II?
After viewing several installments within the A&E Fitzgerald video,
what do notice about Fitzgerald and his life as a writer? Other
observations? Please complete this blog response by 2:30p.m. on Wednesday, April 13th.
posted by Greg T at Monday, April 11, 2016
7 Comments:
I have noticed that Fitzgerald is very clever. He had a different writing style than most people. Hollywood did not work out for Fitzgerald because everything else took over his life rather than doing what he was really passionate about which is writing. His writing is very different and some of the things he writes about is not even important just like in The Great Gatsby he listed names of people that go to Gatsby's parties and they had no meaning. Since Fitzgerald was an alcoholic he got aggressive and started having a different personality that he did not have before.
I notice that Fitzgerald is a struggled man. He struggles with a lot at home. Such as, problems with his wife. Him and his wife have been going through a lot. They not only party a lot but they are very big alcoholics and it troubles them a lot. Fitzgerald also lost his job. He had tried to publish a book but it didn't get anywhere because of the Great Depression. As he got older he had bad health problems and slowed down on the drinking. Then he eventually got a massive heart attack.
His life as a writer was very successful earlier in his career but as time went by economic struggles impacted the ability for writings to sell. The great depression caused the public to not appreciate his style of writing since that phase had been passed by in the 1920's. This also affected his personal life, because when he was not being successful he would drink more in order to find some self compensation.
I realized that Fitzgerald is different then many people. He did not work out in hollywood because he didn't desire to be like that. Most people desire so much to become famous with whatever they do and Fitzgerald was not like that. He wrote because he enjoyed it and never expected anything from it. When he started drinking more his personality completely changed and so did his writing. He died from a heart attack.
Fitzgerald is obsessive, with wealth, women and booze. He and his beautiful wife faced economic hardship after he couldn't seem to get out the words. His drinking destroyed his career. But obsession with money fueled to long after he was gone.
I noticed for life as a writer is that he writes many of his stories based on his life and he carries that over to his books. And he is by far very passionate about all of his writing
I noticed that his life is very much reflected in his writings. He hides meaning in his text that can be related to his own life at the time of writing. His early successful career is shown in a more upbeat for of writing while his later failing life is shown throught sad books about hard times.
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