F Scott Fitzgerald Chapter Summary

F. Scott Fitzgerald Name ________________________ Fitzgerald Notes

1. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, _______, in St. __________, Minnesota.
2. Fitzgerald developed “a two-cylinder inferiority _______________________” that made him aware of his modest beginnings.
3. Fitzgerald’s father made a living by selling __________________.
4. When Fitzgerald was in school, he gained a reputation as a __________- ____. He never lost this need for attention. He turned to ________________ as a way of courting popularity.
5. In 19___, he went to Princeton, the Ivy League school he paid homage to in This Side of Paradise. He called Princeton The “pleasantest __________________ ________
His attitude toward money was colored by his modest beginnings. As if to prove a point, he squandered the high fees he earned and lived much of his live relying on advances of his salary.

13. T his Side of Paradise was published in March ___________ and was a great success. In April, Fitzgerald and Zelda were married in ___________________________.
14. At _____ years of age, Fitzgerald was rich and famous. He rode on the roofs of taxi cabs and jumped into fountains, gave endless newspaper interviews and got drunk at countless parties. At that time, he said, “I had everything I ever _______________ and knew I would never be ________________ again.”
15. His drinking started getting out of hand. Furthermore, Zelda began to resent his _____________ and the attention it brought him.
16. The Fitzgeralds’ daughter Scottie was born in October of _______. In 1922, the Fitzgeralds rented a house at Great Neck on Long Island and became friendly with the writer Ring Lardner, who described the Fitzgeralds this way: “Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald a ______________.” The rounds of parties and glittering social
Zelda’s behavior was also becoming erratic and ________________. She and Fitzgerald goaded each other into acts of drunken bravado. Returning to America from the French Riviera, Fitzgerald summed up the year frankly: “Futile, shameful useless . . . Self _________________________. Health gone.”
19. Their marriage was not in serious trouble. In 1927, Fitzgerald went to Hollywood to write a flapper comedy that was never made and had an affair with Lois Moran. Outraged, Zelda started a ________ in their hotel bathroom and on their trip back to New York threw her _______________, an expensive gift from Scott, from the train window. In an effort to reform his out-of-control lifestyle, he rented a secluded mansion on the Delaware River, but the bright lights of New York proved too much of a temptation. He and Zelda made regular trips there, about which Zelda wrote, “We come up for a ______________________, then wake up and it’s Thursday.”
20. The Wall Street crash of 1929 signaled and end of a boom era for both the nation and the Fitzgeralds. Zelda’s mental health was deteriorating rapidly In 1930, she was admitted to a Swiss clinic where she was