Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24 September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota in the Mid- West of America. At the time of his birth America was changing into a country of growing cities and technological changes were happening. He was educated at Princeton University but he was a very poor student and never finished his degree. At University he was with many young men from wealthy backgrounds. The newly-rich commercial classes of America preferred to …showed first 75 words of 2575 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2575 total…F. Scott Fitzgerald really, telling his story and letting other people judge what is what. He doesn’t say much but his thoughts reflect those of the author I think. All in all he seems rather an unimportant and insignificant character at first especially compared to Gatsby but in the end it’s through his eyes that we see the story and he is the one that makes us realize the tragic sadness of it.