What details about F.Scott Fitzgerald's personal life that explain why he is important in American literature

Answer 1

He is important in American literature for one fabulous book:
The Great Gatsby. His other work is okay, but doesn't rise to the levels Gatsby rises to. Gatsby is the book Scott Fitzgerald always wanted to write.
It's a classic. Something that cannot be improved upon.
His personal life was gossip column fodder, and didn't really make much difference to his reputation, which at the time of his death, was at a low ebb.
After his death, the influential literary critic, Edmund Wilson, reappraised Fitzgerald's work, especially Gatsby, and his reputation was made.
And rightly so.

Answer 2

there is no longer some thing to characterize that each and each man or woman chnages all that many times, perchance only once of their lives. With divorce at 50% those days, replacing faith might want to be like replacing a spouse or dedicated spouse - in words of frequency. Now only because you married the evil b*tch from hades does no longer mean you gained't attempt with the subsequent hottie that walks in the door, and the subsequent after that. fairly in case you experience that you ned that larger power that would want to really help you compromise your annoying and depressing existence.

Answer 3

In short, the Princton educated misfit personified the Jazz Age. Writing 'Gatsby' in France during the late 20's while Paris was the epicenter of the uncensored and hedonistic jazz age. Exactly as we picture the 20's. Also Scott's marriage to Zelda was somewat different I think and probably gave him foder for the Gatsby and Tycoon novels.
He was important to lit. because he was able to mirror his age of existance. And it was an exiting and fast time.
He and his writings are a true representation of this Jazz Age. J/S

(a) In his review of The Last Tycoon , Stephen Vincent Benét took to task the self-righteousness of those obituary writers who, instead of reviewing Fitzgerald 's work, merely reviewed the Jazz Age and said that it was closed. Because he had made a spectacular youthful success at one kind of thing, they assumed that that one kind of thing was all he could ever do. In other words, they assumed that because he died in his forties, he had shot his bolt. And they were just one hundred percent wrong, as `The Last Tycoon' shows. He goes on to call Fitzgerald a writer who strove against considerable odds to widen his range, to improve and sharpen his great technical gifts, and to write a kind of novel that no one else of his generation was able to write, and, comparing The Last Tycoon to other Hollywood novels, he concludes that Fitzgerald 's novel shows what a really first-class writer can do with material and how he gets it under his skin. ... Had Fitzgerald been able to finish the book, I think there is no doubt that it would have added a major character and a major novel to American fiction. Even in its unfinished form, says Benét, the novel is a great deal more than a fragment. In it he finds the wit, observation, sure craftsmanship, the verbal felicity that Fitzgerald could always summon. ... But with them there is a richness of texture, a maturity of point of view that shows us what we all lost in his early death.

Benét concluded his review by announcing that the evidence is in. You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you had better. This is not a legend, this is a reputation and, seen in perspective, it may well be one one of the most secure reputations of our time.

The closing words of The Great Gatsby work thematically to tie his modern tale to its historical background, but they stay in the mind not for that reason at all but because of their powerful rhetorical appeal. Nick has been reflecting on how Long Island must have struck Dutch sailors' eyes three hundred years earlier: as a fresh, green breast of the new world. ...(a)

"For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. Then: And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. ... And one fine morning...

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
final pasage from The Great Gatsby.

Answer 4

He's not important due to his personal life but his works which represents his legacy for American and world literature.