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the reputation or the continuous success, and the reorganization of his contemporary Ⅲ.The Golden Age of Fitzgerald and the Prime Time of Gatsby Fitzgerald himself had devoted to the intensively romantic, nostalgic and sentimental image of the successful young chronicler of the 1920s, a loving, and full of adventure, but self-destructive, and he finally became the saddened, emotionally failed Hollywood writer, struggling against alcohol, illness. And just like the saying: believe yourself you will get the thing you wanted realized in the real life. Yes he got the girl he had dreamed for a long time with his great achievement in the literature. For this he almost cost all of his money to have a party in his beautiful mansion which built for his loving girl who was a delicate, lovely, and essentially parasitic woman, only the continuous achievement can satisfy her material demand. While at Camp Sheridan, Fitzgerald met Zelda the "top girl," in Fitzgerald's words, of Montgomery, Alabama, youth society. Just for this top girl he thought that his spring of life was coming, and quickly the two were engaged in 1919 and Fitzgerald moved into an apartment at 200 Claremont Avenue in New York City to try to lay a foundation for his life with Zelda. Working at an advertising firm and writing short stories, Fitzgerald was unable to convince Zelda that he would be able to support her. She broke off the engagement and Fitzgerald returned to his parents' house in St. Paul to revise The Romantic Egotist. Recast as This Side of Paradise, it was accepted by Scribner's in the fall of 1919, and Zelda and Scott resumed their engagement. The break off of the engagement and the resumed their engagement were the strong proof that the money was the precondition of the marriage, and it also means that the wealth was the base of the love. And this also appeared in the novel. It was published on March 26, 1920, and became one of the most popular books of the year, defining the flapper generation. The next week, Scott and Zelda were married in New York's , and this quick marriage proved that the so-called top girl indeed just afraid the potential stock, Fitzgerald, and now he was on the peak of his career, will catch by the other girls has the same features like her. Their daughter and only child were born on October 26, 1921. The story of Gatsby and Daisy, indeed, was the copy the author’s life. And the same plot still appeared in the love story of the two main protagonists, for money, for the social position, the two protagonists from lover became the strange. From the above we can get that the two young boys has the same features: naive or innocent, or we can say that they thought that the love is the platonic love they thought in their mind, and in fact, their mind still pure, even when they got the admiring achievement. In other words, they were the out-dated man of their contemporary society, even they have the ability to get the wealth and the social position they want, but they have not the ability to adjust the society and the ability to cope with the problem they met in heir real life. A creature of whiteness, indeed, Daisy is the fairy girl of Gatsby’s dreams in more ways than one, and Daisy’s essential lack of emotion shows in her pathetically futile gestures, and sordid circumstances that finally destroy Gatsby and his pure dream for love. Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy in this matter resembles Fitzgerald’s own relationship with his top girl o