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—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter I, The Great Gatsby [57] The character of Daisy Buchanan speaks one sentence in the novel partly drawn from Fitzgerald's wife Zelda, although greatly altered. [ 58 ] When their daughter Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota , on October 26, 1921, Fitzgerald recorded verbatim his wife's ...
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Edith Cummings Munson (March 26, 1899 – November 20, 1984), popularly known as The Fairway Flapper, was an American socialite and one of the premier amateur golfers during the Jazz Age. [1] She was one of the Big Four debutantes in Chicago during World War I .
Nick Carraway is a fictional character and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is a Yale University alumnus from the American Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a newly arrived resident of West Egg on Long Island, near New York City.
Thomas Parke D'Invilliers is both a pen name of F. Scott Fitzgerald and a character in his quasi-autobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise.In the novel, which is more or less a roman à clef, D'Invilliers represents the poet John Peale Bishop, a friend of Fitzgerald's at Princeton and a member of the 1917 class.
Research, including a 2014 meta-analysis of studies involving more than 1.2 million children, found no association between vaccines and autism.
A Queens public high-school teacher created a creepy “escape room” where he allegedly sexually abused a female student, according to a troubling new report.
Jay Gatsby (originally named James Gatz) is the titular fictional character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.The character is an enigmatic nouveau riche millionaire who lives in a luxurious mansion on Long Island where he often hosts extravagant parties and who allegedly gained his fortune by illicit bootlegging during prohibition in the United States. [5]