A GREAT comeback...

And we are back, but this time with The Great Gatsby.
The 2013 adaptation with Leonardo Di Caprio just came out, I have no doubt the movie will be a great success, but I am one of those people who believe that the book is and will always be better than the movie. I strongly recommend you reading the book; love, jazz and parties full of powerful symbolisms.
Like The Elegance of the Hedgehog, every so often I will post a brief summary and analysis of the chapter. I hope you enjoy and decide to read the book.


I believe it is important to understand where the author is writing from and a little about his life.


F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He belonged to an upper middle class family. In pursuit of his writing career he attended to Princeton University, yet in 1917 he dropped out and joined the U.S. Army. We must remember that World War I was happening, Fitzgerald was quite afraid of being placed in a fighting position. Luckily was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry and was transferred to Camp Sheridan outside of Montgomery, Alabama. Here is where the famous Zelda Sayre comes to the picture. As a writer, it is difficult to have a stable economy, there are many ups and downs, obviously not enough to satisfy the needs of the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court justice. He moved to NY where he made more money by working in a publishing firm, enough for Zelda Sayre to marry him. This same year he published his first novel, The Side of Paradise. The couple lived in New York, Paris and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle, where people like Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Pasos, and Gertrude Stein belonged.
Fitzgerald is the author of masterpieces such as The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night, and his most famous and one of the essential books of the XXth century- The Great Gatsby. 
He died of a heart attack at the age of 44, while working on his unfinished novel-The Love of the Last Tycoon. Which was published after his dead even though it was never finished.

References
Scribner. "The Great Gatsby - Biography on the back page."Scribner. New York, USA. 2004.
Wikipedia Contributors. "F. Scott Fitzgerald."Wikipedia. 19/05/13 web. Consulted [20/05/13]. <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald>>