When reading
The Great Gatsby, the mystery of Jay Gatsbys history is
intriguing. Upon completion of the novel and research of Francis
Scott Fitzgerald, it is evident that the authors own life impacted
the background of Gatsby himself. After research, the
mysteriousness behind Gatsbys history and past relationships may
not be so arbitrary after all; they come directly from experiences
of the author.
I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west--all
dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford
because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years
(Fitzgerald 69). As Gatsby elaborates on his past to Nick, he
proceeds to emphasize the social struggle during the time. It is
then made clear later in the novel that James Gatz, at the age of
seventeen, was actually beating his way along the south shore of
Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher or in any other
capacity that brought him food and bed (Fitzgerald 104).
Fitzgerald grew up in the Midwest, and grew up less-wealthy than
his neighbors in the wealthy
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As reflected by
Gatsby in the novel, Then came
warold sport. It
was a great relief and I tried very hard to die but I seemed to
bear an enchanted life
I was promoted to be a major and every
Allied government gave me a decoration-even Montenegro, little
Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea! (Fitzgerald 70). Again,
Gatsby appears to mimic the dreams of Fitzgerald himself.
Fitzgerald believed he would die in war, which is expressed through
Gatsby indirectly by the phrase he hoped to die in war
(Fitzgerald 70). In June of 1918, Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp
Sheridan, where he fell in love (Bruccoli). The war then ended just
before he was sent overseas, so he returned to New York in order to
seek out a fortune to marry as his fiance broke the
engagement
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