Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Fitzgerald at Work
Fitzgerald at Work
GETTING ESTABLISHED
EARLY SUCCESS: Reflecting upon his career in his 1937 essay “Early Success,” Fitzgerald declared, “Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power—at its worst the Napoleonic delusion. The man who arrives young believes that he exercises his will because his star is shining. The man who only asserts him-self at thirty has a balanced idea of what will power and fate have each contributed, the one who gets there at forty is liable to put the emphasis on will alone.”1 In many ways Fitzgerald’s early career seemed the product of destiny, of fate. He had served his literary apprenticeship at the...
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