Fast Facts:
~Award since 1948
~Awarded for distinguished fiction by American authors
~Usually the prize novel deals with American life
~Joseph Pulitzer was a rival journalist of William Randolph Hearst, they both practiced yellow journalism
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is qualified to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize as a result of his massive achievements. To start with, Fitzgerald attended school at St. Paul's Academy, Newman School, and Princeton University; writing various stories and plays for the different papers. Fitzgerald has a wide range of experience and success that show that he deserves the Pulitzer Prize. Furthermore, by focusing on just one of Fitzgerald's novels The Great Gatsby, he uses foreshadowing, metaphors, and tons of descriptive detail throughout the novel as shown in the following passage, "But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose." The description used throughout the novel help to foreshadow and reiterate the events in Nick, Jordan, Daisy, Gatsby, Tom, Myrtle, and Wilson's lives. As shown from these previous statements, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald should be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his distinguished fiction dealing with American life.
