Gatsby As F. Scott Fitzgerald's Self-Portrait

Part I of Essay
Many times it has been stated that Gatsby was Fitzgerald and that Gatsby was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s self-portrait. There are similarities between the two, for instance, both were lieutenants in the military, and both attended prestigious universities. But Fitzgerald’s int ....

Part II of Essay
.... listen. Then the dream divided one day when I decided to marry your mother after all, even though I knew she was spoilt and meant me no good. I was sorry immediately I had married her, but being patient in those days, made the best of it and got to love her in another way...But I was a man divided. She wanted me to work too much for her and not enough for my dream. She realized too late that work was dignity and the only dignity, and tried to atone for it by working herself, but it was too late and she broke and is brok ....