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ckground have played important parts in the character development of Fitzgerald since his school times which determine his later development. It can also be learnt that the family background, especially his father affects his development; in the meantime the social background have constituted the exterior factors in stimulating his pursuit of American Dream. A. The Family Background of Fitzgerald The dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century. The self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Generation" -- the Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I -- crafted five novels and dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age with remarkable emotional honesty. His heroes -- handsome, confident, and doomed -- blaze brilliantly before exploding ("Show me a hero," he once said, "and I will write you a tragedy"), (John W. Bicknell, 1969: 36 )and his heroines are beautiful and intricate. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald's given names indicate his parents' pride in his father's ancestry. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values. Fitzgerald's mother, Mary (Mollie) McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Both were Catholics. Comparing with Fitzgerald’s career as a writer, Gatsby as a bootlegger, but they have many things in common; from the character of Gatsby we can learn it. Gatsby, whose main features include naive, pure and ambitious. In fact, he is the son of idealism or in some way he is the disciple of the style of thought of idealism, in his blood even in his cell are full of that style, which results in the way of choosing his life company. Gatsby, from a poor man to a rich man, whose experiences are so rich, while whose felling or the way of thought with ration are so tender and blindly, for going in for a woman who even has nothing in common with him. When we think it with mind, we really wonder that whether Gatsby is clever or not, or whether his life is successful or sorrowful, and we also want to know that if this story is suitable for that special historical background, because of his fantastic way to go on his stage or the wealth he got in that times. A man can get so much wealth in that special times is a powerful prove to show that he is not a man with nuts in his head. And he should know that the wealth he got is not achieved by the luck, however, by the hard effort and his wisdom. If that story really happened in that times, the only reason to explain that is the courage the youth in 1920’s American youth has. And Fitzgerald also has that features: whose main features include naive, pure and ambitious. In fact, he is the son of idealism or in some way he is the disciple of the style of thought of idealism, in his blood even in his cell are full of that style, which results in the way of choosing his life company. At the same time, Fitzgerald, to be a nobleman as a writer at that time, he didn’t show any discrimination to Gatsby, as a bootlegger, it showed that he had received the idea: you could get the success with the way you think it