Daisy Buchanan Biography

The Roaring Twenties is known as the jazz age with Gatsby-like parties and extravagant lifestyles. Behind the man that created the Gatsby-like fantasies, Scott Fitzgerald, was me, his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald. Although, I started out with much humbler beginnings, the glittering parties would less fantastical without my touch. After the glitz and the glamour, it may not be have been what it was cracked up to be. At the turn of the century, I was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Out of my six siblings, I was the youngest. Being the youngest of six, I naturally grew-up a privileged child. Of all my childhood memories, I most remember dreaming of being a ballerina. I put my dream on standby as I grew up, but my hopes of professionally dancing remained. In my adolescence I practiced the common ways of a southern belle by attending parties and socializing amongst friends. It was at one of these parties that I met my future husband, Frances Scott Fitzgerald.

The early years of my marriage were great, Scott and I were happy. Except, I felt as though the personal details of my life were under a microscope. Scott loved to take quotes from me for his books. Daisy Buchanan, in The Great Gatsby, and I have many things in common because Scott used details of my life as inspiration. This can be seen when Daisy Buchanan states, “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” That quote is almost identical to the one I stated after the birth of our daughter. I was not thrilled that I was being morphed into fictional characters, but I became livid when inspiration turned to plagiarism. It was when the New York Tribune hired me to review Scott’s book, The Beautiful and the Damned. Upon reviewing, I discovered that sections in the book had come directly from my missing