Реферат: Scott Fitzgerald Essay Research Paper F Scott
as his drinking, and was continually swaying his focus from writing to
socializing. Also, Zelda?s eventual mental breakdown triggered Scott?s own
series of nervous breakdowns. Because of these factors, Zelda is often
considered the prime instigator of Fitzgerald?s literary and personal
declines. Yet in spite of Zelda?s overtly negative influence on Fitzgerald, he
continued to love his wife to the day he died. Later in life, after Zelda became
mentally ill, Fitzgerald clearly illustrated his unconditional love for his wife
by compromising his artistic integrity in order to write short stories to
support her medical expenses. Aside from Zelda, two major American literary
figures played a substantial role in Fitzgerald?s life, and his personal
decline as well. On an extended trip to Europe, and at the pinnacle of his fame,
Fitzgerald met and became acquainted with a then obscure fellow expatriate named
Ernest Hemmingway. Throughout the course of their friendship, Hemmingway would
become Fitzgerald?s harshest critic, and in the eyes of Fitzgerald, his,
?artistic conscience?(Meyers 263). The second major American literary figure
who influenced Fitzgerald?s life was Edgar Allen Poe. Fitzgerald?s intrigue
with both the tragic and romantic elements of Poe?s life, as well as the many
similarities these two men shared, may have very well facilitated his plunge
into the unforgiving abysses of alcoholism and depression. Jeffrey Meyers?
biography Scott Fitzgerald provides a complete and seemingly unbiased account of
the life of one of the most complex men in American literary history. Whereas
previous biographies tended to over-exaggerate either the romantic or tragic
elements of Fitzgerald?s life, Scott Fitzgerald does not in any way attempt to
emphasize these aspects. Rather, this biography offers a strait-forward
interpretation of both the life and works of Fitzgerald. It illustrates the
importance of his relationships with Zelda Sayre and Ernest Hemmingway; the
mentally and physically destructive influence of his alcoholism; and the
parallels between his life and his writings. Through these facets, and many
others, Meyers provides insight into Fitzgerald?s life, without forcing his