an named John Peale Bishop. Bishop introduced Fitzgerald to poetry, that especially of John Keats and Edmund Wilson, who would become the intellectual conscience of Fitzgeralds life (Prigozy, 3). Instead of graduating, he enlisted into the Army at the end of WW1, which is when he met his wife Zelda Sayre, whom he met in a boot camp during the war (Philips, 2). Zelda is the model for most of the women in his stories and novels until the late 1930s, for Fitzgerald loved her more than anything. (Prigozy, 4). Many of his stories also are biographical events that reflect the years from WW1 (Prigozy, 8). As Fitzgerald grew older, he used more and more of his personal experiences to create a plot for his stories. His books grew also, making them more and more successful. Many things he had done in his life were of great influence. Fitzgerald was not a very athletic person. He decided, instead, to participate in the theatre arts, which is where he obtained many of his ideas for his first few short stories. These stories showed very strong theatrical elements (Prigozy, 2). Fitzgeralds appreciation of the theatre led him to New York, which is where he moved with Zelda (Prigozy, 2). Fitzgerald also spent some time in Hollywood, where he met yet another influential person, Lois Moran. Fitzgerald later used Morans life to write and publish the book Jacobs Ladder (Prigozy, 7).Another very influential person entered Fitzgeralds life during his years of education. This very important person is Father Sigourney Fay, who was the director of a school which Fitzgerald attended after his years at Princeton; Newman School. Fitzgerald always tried to capture the beauty of Fay in many of his works (Prigozy, 3). Fitzgerald loved the sophisticated person that Fay was, and created his characters to be the same sophisticated person that Fay was (Prigozy, 3). Fay also introduced Fitzgerald to a new world of Catholicism, which Fitzgerald also revea...
