F. Scott Fitzgerald As a icon of the "Lost Generation", F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the youthful Jazz Age of Americans in the 1920s. Fitzgerald defined the Jazz Age as a time when " a new generation [had] grown to find...all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken (Holt 436)." His life was filled with the same tragedies and disillusionments that plagued his characters. With a success to his first novel and a beautiful wife his future …showed first 75 words of 1334 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1334 total…him of being a crybaby whose characters drank gin in silver slabs while they sniffled about the sham and tinsel of it all (USC). And few of the obituary writers took enough regard of his development since his first two novels. F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself a failure but in fact he was not one at all. Fitzgerald's work did not earn the credibility and recognition it holds today until years after his death.