Bruccoli, Matthew J. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Open Road Media, 2022. Accessed 3 April 2025 Chpt. 24
This source is from a biography of F Scott Fitzgerald and talks about his life and feelings around different things. It goes in depth of the public perception of TGG in the time it came out. It will be very useful for talking about FSF’s thoughts and public perception in my essay.
Dickstein, Morris. The Authority of Failure. file:///C:/Users/hanna/Downloads/Fitzgerald%20The%20Authority%20of%20Failure%20(1).pdf.
This source talks about FSF’s struggle with his identity and finances. It goes over how Fitzgerald didn’t think very highly of money and instead is very centered around Zelda in his earlier life. I could use this in my essay to show Fitzgerald’s version of the American Dream.
FRIEDRICH, OTTO. “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Money, Money, Money.” The American Scholar, vol. 29, no. 3, 1960, pp. 392–405. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41208658.Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
This article talks about the financial and other issues FSF has encountered growing up as well as some more opinions on different issues. It also talks about his relationship to Zelda and how money played into it. I think that it would help with my analysis of Fitzgerald’s relationships and feelings around money.
Greene, Philip. “Drinking While Writing: Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Daily Beast (New York), July 2020, p. N.PAG. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=e24199c3-e69b-3a2e-a6e6-40fd4ff92abf.
This source talks about FSF’s thoughts on alcoholism in his letters to other people. I can use this to show how FSF thought about himself being an alcoholic and his friend’s thoughts on it. I could use this with other sources to show my argument about FSF’s thoughts on alcohol in my essay.
Irwin, Julie M. “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Little Drinking Problem.” American Scholar, vol. 56, no. 3, June 1987, p. 415. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=33176a3d-0526-356a-b710-cfb784ed0eb2.
This talks about FSF’s alcoholism and its impact on him and his writing. It shows the impact drinking had on him as well as his friend’s thoughts of his alcoholism. This could be used in my discussion of his alcoholism in my essay.
Kruse, Horst. “The Real Jay Gatsby: Max von Gerlach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Compositional History of ‘The Great Gatsby.’” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, vol. 1, 2002, pp. 45–83. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41583032. Accessed 10 May 2025.
This source talks about the life of Max Von Gerlach and his comparisons to Gatsby. It talks about the possible interactions that he and Fitzgerald could have had and any evidence. I could use this source as the backing of the counter argument.
Wilson, B. F. Notes on Personality, IV – F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Smart Set, 1924, file:///C:/Users/hanna/Downloads/Conversations%20with%20F.%20Scott%20Fitzgerald%20_Notes%20on%20Personalities_.pdf.
This source talks about Fitzgerald’s personality and small details about his life. This is helpful to show some of Fitzgerald’s system of thinking and personality. It talks about how much Fitzgerald got rejected by editors and such as well as how it made him feel. I can use this source to show some more small details about Fitzgerald to support my argument.
Works Consulted
Mangum, Bryant, editor. F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2013. Accessed 3 April 2025.
This source talks about some of the societal changes that happened during the writing of different FSF’s novels and his morals on certain things. I did not cite this article directly, but I did read it and used it to contextualize Fitzgerald to myself.
