The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which tells the story of Monroe Stahr, a young film producer struggling to cope with the death of his wife. When he encounters a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to her he immediately falls in love, but upon discovering that she is engaged to another man, he instead embarks on a relationship with Cecilia Brady, the daughter of his business partner Pat Brady, leading to a deadly rift between the two men. Fitzgerald is best known for his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, and is widely regarded as one of the foremost chroniclers of the Jazz Age in the USA.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BrightSummaries.com
• Release date: Apr 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9782808017862

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AMERICAN FICTION WRITER

Born in Minnesota, United States in 1896.

Died in California, United States in 1940.

Notable works:

This Side of Paradise (1920), novel

Tales of the Jazz Age (1920), short story collection

The Great Gatsby (1925), novel

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was a fiction writer whose novels depicting the Jazz Age (an era in the 1920s in which jazz music and dance developed and emerged) are greatly celebrated to this day. Fitzgerald was born to Edward – an aristocrat – and Mary (Mollie) McQuillan Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy in Minnesota from 1908 to 1910, and Newman School in New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. It was not until he attended Princeton that he realised his potential, and his dream of becoming successful. Fitzgerald became a key figure in the university’s literary cohort, and was later elected into one of the top societies at Princeton.

After flunking out of Princeton, and attempting to rejoin, Fitzgerald joined the army in 1917. During