Did F. Scott Fitzgerald achieve the American Dream?

By fynn.barretto

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald is born

  • Fitzgerald is accepted at Princeton

  • Fitzgerald tries out for Princeton's freshman football team; he is cut on the first day

  • Fitzgerald meets Zelda Sayre

  • "This Side of Paradise" is published; it is Fitzgerald's first novel

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald marries Zelda

  • Zelda gives birth to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, her only daughter

  • "The Beautiful and Damned" is published

  • Zelda has a brief affair with another man

  • The Fitzgeralds move to Europe so F. Scott Fitzgerald can write "The Great Gatsby"

  • Fitzgerald meets Ernest Hemingway; they develop a rocky friendship

  • "The Great Gatsby" is published

  • The stock market crashes, beginning the Great Depression

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    Zelda is moved in and out of various mental institutions

  • Fitzgerald meets Sheilah Graham (born Lily Shiel); they begin a relationship shortly thereafter

  • Three Comrades is released; Fitzgerald receives a screen credit for it

  • Fitzgerald begins writing "The Last Tycoon"

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald dies at age 44

  • "The Last Tycoon" is published posthumously

  • Fitzgerald releases "The Crack-Up" and admits therein that he is emotionally bankrupt

  • Zelda burns to death

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald DID NOT achieve the American Dream

    The recognition and popularity he desired were only granted to him after his death