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As a child, and as an adult, I have always been a little envious of child superstars. Wouldn’t it be great to have all that money and fame as a child? Life would be so easy. I use to only dream something like that would happen to me. After reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Early Success” though, I began to change my mind. Maybe it wouldn’t be so great to become a success at such an early age. I would miss out on so much. Fitzgerald had dreams of becoming a successful writer. He struggled for a couple of years in jobs he didn’t like just to make ends meet. Then almost overnight, at the young age of twenty-four, he became a success when his first novel was accepted to be published. Fitzgerald made a lot of money and even had people ask him for advice. He felt on top of the world; his dreams had come true. However, as time went on, the success lost its glamour. He no longer felt like he was being himself, for he had changed from an amateur into a professional writer. Fitzgerald realized that success “is a short and precious time - for when the mist rises in a few weeks, or a few months, one finds that the very best is over” (200). When his novel was published Fitzgerald exclaimed, “I had reached a stage of manic depressive insanity. Rage and bliss alternated hour by hour” (202). He was on an emotional roller coaster; but why?
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