Charlie In The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in a middle class neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. F. Scott Fitzgerald was equally famous as a writer and as a celebrity author because his lifestyle seemed to symbolize the two decades. F. Scott Fitzgerald writing symbolized the 1920s of partying, drinking, and pursuit to pleasure while in the 1930s stood for the gloomy aftermath of excess.(Mary Loeffelholz 1822) He wrote "Babylon Revisited," imminently after the stock market crashed and became a personal and a national story. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby, which was well known and most successful novel he wrote. The Great Gatsby captured what the 1920s were all about with the partying, automobiles, and the garbage
Charlie is trying to get his life together and he feels like he is ready to take on the role of being an actual father. While trying to peruse in his this dream, Charlie’s past keeps coming back up. Charlie is judged by his sister-in-law who holds a grudge against him. Marion binges up Helen, Charlie’s dead wife while Charlie is trying to explain why he can now be the father he should have been to Honoria by saying, "How much you were responsible for Helen's death." (Fitzgerald 1848) This startles Charlie and he says, "Helen died of heart trouble."(Fitzgerald 1848) Then Charlie leaves his sister-in-laws house. That night the image of Helen haunts him. He remembers ever part of that terrible February night. The next morning he gets a call from Marion and he finally hears what he has been waiting since he arrived in Paris. Marion says, "He was perfectly right about Honoria and that she wanted Honoria to be with him. She said she’s glad he was being good and doing better." (Fitzgerald 1849) Things were finally starting to look up for Charlie’s dream of getting Honoria back. After the news settled on Charlie he started to feel sad because he remembered all the plans he and Helen made for Honoria. Once back at the hotel and unexpected note that he received from an old friend that would foreshadow his future. The lovely Lorraine that ended the letter with it saying, "Always devoting, Lorraine." (Fitzgerald 1850) Charlie then arrived at his sister-in-laws home. They start to discuss when Charlie was going to take Honoria, Charlie replied by saying, "As soon as I can get a governess. I hope the day after tomorrow." (Fitzgerald 1850) Marion replied with, "That’s impossible. I’ve got to get her things in shape. Not before Saturday."(Fitzgerald 1850) Right after that the doorbell rang, and then in coming Duncan Scharffer and Lorraine Quarrles. The two of them invited Charlie to dinner when Charlie basically refused and