Fitzgerald Observations A&E Video Part III
After viewing second installment 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 Monday, April 10th.
posted by Greg T at Monday, April 10, 2017
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Fitzgerald became friends with another famous writer, Earnest Hemingway. Both being writers, they had a lot in common and became friends quickly. Fitzgerald struggled with his wife going crazy and this was shown in his last book. During the depression Fitzgerald lost success because people didn't have interest in literature anymore. Fitzgerald went back to struggling with alcoholism and hit rockbottom. Fitzgerald then gets a new offer to go to hollywood as a screenwriter.
He went from the twenties, which were a happy time that everyone loved to being very affected by the thirties. His wife was going crazy and needed to be in expensive hospitals. He started drinking and became depressed which doesn’t help anything. He tried to write more books but they were failures. His success eventually came when he was honest with the public about his mental state because they could relate to him. They wanted to relate with others. He went through a rough patch with the rest of the country and that included many emotional problems, but he eventually made it out.
His wife cheated on him and he became super sad. His book was not the best selling when it first came out. People thought he was a suck up to the rich. The stock market crashed and during that him and zelda went into the worst part of their lives. Zelda tried to steer them off a cliff and he brought her to a mental hospital. He spent 17 years writing tender is the night. But that book was a out partying and during that time people did not want to hear about that because most could not eat. His books seam to follow his life in one way or another. Fitzgerald started to go to holly wood to become a screen writer.
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Fitzgerald was going through tough times especially with his wife. His quickly deteriorating bank account put him and Zelda in trouble making it hard for him to "put food on the table". He eventually does get a job and makes money again however this spell was hard on him as shown by his alcoholism.
Gatsby's and Zelda's relationship was very similar to the relationship Daisy Buchanan and Tom Buchanan had. It was full of affairs and deceit but at the end, they completed each other. After the decline of the stock market, Zelda started gradually losing her mind. She was diagnosed with Esquizofrenia. After all, Fitzgerald didn't want to admit his wife was sick and he started living his alcoholic life. He published "Tender Is The Night" to help Zelda with all the medical expenses for the asylum.
As time went on Scott Fitzgerald started writing more about his life with Zelda as those long years passed as the video says it took him nine years to write one book and from the video I think it was about his life with Zelda and how she slowly started going crazy and how he could never forgive her for cheating on him . Scott wrote a book during the depression and his book didn't do so well and as time went on he got worse at his writing because his drinking habit got even worse to.
Something I noticed about Fitzgerald was that he loved his lifestyle as much as his writing and that he would become an alcoholic and lose most of his money through the great depression because he couldn't live without his lifestyle or his wife who was now in an asylum. And it would be until he got an offer to do movies.
Fitzgerald commonly used his own life as material for others pleasure, writing about experiences he was familiar with. For instance, as his wife Zelda went crazy he drew off his experiences with her in the sanitariums to write about a psychiatrist who falls in love with one of his patients. He also wrote stories about ritzy parties and events frequently attended by the wealthy during the roaring 20's, although they weren't well received by people reading them.
He also became friends with up-and-coming writer Earnest Hemingway who already had some success in the industry. They helped grow each other by mirroring successes, but there was always an edge to their relationship.
Fitzgerald life was always going down slowly but he finally hit a never ending drop. He had a friend who tried to use him. The great depression hit him hard and couldn't sell his book. His wife started to lose her mind and there seemed to be no cure for it. He always had a problem with alcohol but with everything going on in his life it got worst. It was stated he would drink 30 bottles of or a quart of gin. He was framed as a has been by the news paper. But he was offered a job as a screen writer in hollywood.
I noticed that he was going through much harder times than he had been. His novels were not selling well and the great depression came. With this too, Zelda cheated on him and she started going crazy. Because of this he started writing dramatic pieces that related much to his own life.
Fitzgerald was in a very rough part of his life, his wife was cheating on hime and he was watching her go mentally insane, with his last book being unsuccessful he turned to alcohol and hits absolute rock bottom until he later becomes a screenwriter in hollywood.
Fitzgerald's life is becoming worse and worse. Although Fitzgerald met another famous writer, Earnest Hemingway, they became friends quickly because they had a lot in common. He was really struggling in life with his wife cheating on him then going crazy with schizophrenia making him depressed. As well as his literature not having any popularity since the great depression was making people uninterested in literature. He was a rock bottom drinking more then ever when he got an offer to go to Hollywood as a screenwriter.
Fitzgerald went through struggling with his wife going crazy and not trusting her with flirting with other men. Know one wanted to read books anymore, he lost all of the people that read his books. When he lost that he become a alcoholic and would drink up to 30 beers a day. After he hit rock bottom he got an offer to be a screenwriter.
Fitzgerald's life was tougher than ever. His wife, Zelda, left him and he turned to alcohol and parties for comfort. It took him years to finish his novels and the society began to make fun of how his life is turning out to be.
In the third segment of the fitzgerald video, we see the Fitzgerald's life take a dark turn starting with the cheating of his wife. Though she vowed to never cheat again, Fitzgerald could never forgive her. Fitzgerald soon runs into more problems with his wife when she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. As this aspect of his life was declining, so was his writing. His book Tender Is the Night took him nine years to write with 17 edits. Fitzgerald's drinking problem was getting progressively worse and he would often be sent to the hospital for over drinking. Overall, Fitzgerald's great life went down the drain towards his later years.
This segment reinforces the idea that while Scott writes his novel he pulls out from his real life. The antagonist of the real life being the struggle of his mentally insane wife and alcoholism representing the struggle he puts into his stories. It can be told that at in this point of his life, this is not what Scott would like, this isn't what he originally envisioned his glory to be.
Fitzgerald believed that his addictive habits have led him to create such strong bonds that he and the significant other didn't know about. His "contract" with his wife seemed to be him being paranoid. His drinking habits are something of a fascination. It seems that drinking is such an important and most frequent thing, that it seems like writing has dwindled down to a point of not being a priority.
This part of the video talks about his real life experiences and comparing them to his writing. We see certain things about him/his life that start to go down a dark path and some would argue this was a bad road to be on. Things like drinking and cheating on his wife were just 2 examples of the "dark road" in his life.
As the interview goes on, they start to talk about him losing himself. As he starts to cheat on his wife and start to drink on the daily his life plummeted straight down the wrong road. Full of sadness and a dark light, his writing surly reflected off of his new actions. As he slowly was losing his wife and what he had as a family, his writing went down the toilet with it. Most of his success was ruined because people withdrew interest in literature in a period of time.
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