Help me with two or three quotations from The Great Gatsby that reflect Fitzgerald's thoughts about his own lifestyle or life experiences.

Fitzgerald's own life and personal experiences are
reflected frequently in the novel. Here are some passages to
illustrate:

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"He [Gatsby] talked a lot about the past and I
gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had
gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he
could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find
out what that thing was . .
."

This passage from Chapter
VI relates to Fitzgerald's own life in that, like Gatsby, he thought a great deal about
the past, especially his past with the woman who had consumed his life. In Fitzgerald's
case, this was his wife, Zelda. At the time he wrote The Great
Gatsby, Fitzgerald's life was certainly "confused and disordered." He and
Zelda were caught up in celebrity, drinking too much, quarreling often, and spending
more money than Fitzgerald could earn as a novelist. (Fitzgerald had often been forced
to abandon his serious writing to produce short stories to pay the
bills.)

He said on at least one occasion that if he and
Zelda could only go back and start over, they could do things right the second time.
This feeling is reflected in Gatsby's dream of repeating the
past:

". . .
after she [Daisy] was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her
house--just as if it were five years
ago."

Also, this passage from
Chapter V reflects an essential element in Fitzgerald's personality that shaped his life
and life experiences to come. Like Jimmy Gatz and the young Jay Gatsby before he had
acquired great wealth, Fitzgerald in his own youth had been dominated by romantic
dreams:

"But
his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits
haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in
his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light
his tangled clothes upon the
floor."

As a boy growing up
in St. Paul, Fitzgerald's heart, too, had been filled with "a constant, turbulent riot."
He dreamed of living a life filled with wealth, beauty, glamor, and excitement; he was
restless and determined to seek and find it. In this passage, one can imagine Fitzgerald
back home in St. Paul after World War I, working feverishly to revise his manuscript
that would become This Side of Paradise, imagining the romantic
life it might finally unlock for him.