Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896. He was raised in St. Paul Minnesota, but sent to boarding school in 1911. After several years of school he entered the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end. He became a second lietenant and was stationed in Montogomery Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen year old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry …showed first 75 words of 414 total…

…showed last 75 words of 414 total…the very rich. Now he found himself in an era in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society, particularly in the large cities of the East. Even so, like Nick, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath, and part of him longed for this absent moral center. In many ways, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald's attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age. ?