what inspired scott fitzgerald?
Oswald Spengler Sara Murphy R. D. Blackmore Edith Wharton Shane Leslie Sherwood Anderson John Keats
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 In his 1997 book of essays entitled The Geography of the Imagination , American writer Guy Davenport suggests a different inspiration for Kilmer 's poem . 

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 Baker was also the inspiration for literary works . In 1913 F. Scott Fitzgerald enrolled at Princeton as a freshman , when Baker was a senior . Though he only spoke to Baker once during their time at Princeton , Fitzgerald idolized him . His first novel , This Side of Paradise , has several references to Baker : the main character is named Amory Blaine after Baker 's middle name , and the minor character Allenby is Baker himself . Mark Goodman 's 1985 novel Hurrah for the Next Man Who Dies is a fictionalized account of Baker 's life . 

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 The novel 's central theme involves the examination of the human desire to detect patterns or meaning and the risks of finding patterns in meaningless data . Other themes include methods of interpretation of history , cultural familiarity with brand names , and tensions between art and commercialization . The September 11 , 2001 attacks are used as a motif representing the transition to the new century . Critics identify influences in Pattern Recognition from Thomas Pynchon 's postmodern detective story The Crying of Lot 49 . 

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 Fitzgerald — inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island 's north shore — began planning the novel in 1923 , desiring to produce , in his words , " something new — something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned . " Progress was slow , with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924 . His editor , Maxwell Perkins , felt the book was vague and persuaded the author to revise over the next winter . Fitzgerald was repeatedly ambivalent about the book 's title and he considered a variety of alternatives , including titles that referenced the Roman character Trimalchio ; the title he was last documented to have desired was Under the Red , White , and Blue . " 

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 In April 1925 , back in Paris , Scott met Ernest Hemingway , whose career he did much to promote . Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald became firm friends , but Zelda and Hemingway disliked each other from their very first meeting , and she openly described him as " bogus , " " that fairy with hair on his chest " and " phoney as a rubber check . " She considered Hemingway 's domineering macho persona to be merely a posture ; Hemingway in turn , told Scott that Zelda was crazy . Her dislike was probably not helped by Scott 's repeated insistence that she recount the story of her affair with Jozan to Hemingway and his wife , Hadley . In an embellishment , the Fitzgeralds told the Hemingways that the affair ended when Jozan committed suicide . It was through Hemingway , however , that the Fitzgeralds were introduced to much of the Lost Generation expatriate community : Gertrude Stein , Alice B. Toklas , Robert McAlmon and others . 
