{"id":13730,"date":"2025-04-15T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13730"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T23:40:39","slug":"f-scott-fitzgeralds-gatsby-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/15\/f-scott-fitzgeralds-gatsby-100\/","title":{"rendered":"F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby @ 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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One Hundred Years of Gatsby<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Editions of The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u2014which achieved popularity only after F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s death\u2014abound, but the mysteries surrounding the Great American Novel endure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0NATHAN KING<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Redford and Mia Farrow in the 1974 film adaptation of\u00a0The Great Gatsby.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s final royalty check was for $13.13, making him the recipient of a double dose of bad luck. By 1940, the novel he thought to be his masterpiece,\u00a0The Great Gatsby,<\/em>\u00a0was very nearly out of print, and the woman he regarded as the love of his life, Zelda Fitzgerald, was living across the country, in and out of mental hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Fitzgerald died alone, of a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 44\u2014leave it to the world\u2019s biggest romantic to perish of a broken heart\u2014he considered himself a washed-up failure.\u00a0The Great Gatsby\u00a0<\/em>hadn\u2019t even sold out its initial printing, in 1925, of 23,000 copies, and Fitzgerald was living hand to mouth (the hand was big, but so was the mouth) writing short stories and film scripts. As an author, he was well known to the public but something of a back number. As a man, he was a shell of himself. The American Dream, the Great American Novel, the American Girl\u2014for Fitzgerald, they were all wrapped up together\u2014had eluded him, and not for want of trying.

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from AIR MAIL One Hundred Years of Gatsby Editions of The Great Gatsby\u2014which achieved popularity only after F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s death\u2014abound, but the mysteries surrounding the Great American Novel endure BY\u00a0NATHAN KING F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s final royalty check was for $13.13, making him the recipient of a double dose of bad luck. By 1940, the novel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}