View a FREE sample

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is the author of The Great Gatsby and one of the author's good friends during this time in Paris.

Hadley Hemingway

This is the author's first wife, to whom he is married through the period covered by the book. She is devoted to him and supportive of his work.

Gertrude Stein

This is an author and art collector whose apartment is one of the social centers of the artistic community in the 1920s.

Zelda Fitzgerald

This person encourages her husband to drink and is eventually diagnosed with mental illness.

Ezra Pound

This is an Irish poet who the author considers one of his good friends.

Evan Shipman

This is a good poet who does not have the crass ambition to be published that many others have.

Sylvia Beach

This is the owner of Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookstore in Paris that is the...

(read more Character Descriptions)

This section contains 347 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample