Similarities Between Zelda And The Great Gatsby

One of the most famous fictional novel is The Great Gatsby written by the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel where the people are living in the fictional town West and East Egg on Long Island. The characters in the novel are Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan and many more interesting characters. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on 24 September 1896 in St Paul Minnesota and married to Zelda in 1920. Fitzgerald’s life was Zelda and writing books until he died in 1940. There are lots of similarities between the real life of the author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his fictional novel, The Great Gatsby such as caring, poverty, hatred, dishonesty, and independent. To start with caring which is the first similarity between F. Scott Fitzgerald and the book Great Gatsby. Caring is really being concerned about others and being kind. Gatsby tells Nick that, “him and Daisy were in love while Gatsby was in the war”(Fitzgerald). Gatsby tells Nick because he really cares about Daisy and thinks that Nick might be the one who could bring them together. In the same way, “Zelda was important both in Fitzgerald’s private life and writing”(“Zelda was

Scott Fitzgerald and the book Great Gatsby. Independent is basically not depending on anyone. Nick says,“A partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires all for eighty dollars a month”(Fitzgerald). He says it to show that Gatsby was really independent because he has a big mansion so he makes lots of money. Nick says,“My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season”(Fitzgerald). He says it to also show himself as independent because he lives by himself and he has a pretty good house. So, Nick and Gatsby were independent and also Fitzgerald because they were all well settled and living a good