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Similarities Between Zelda And The Great Gatsby

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Amaya Ortiz
Ms Wilson
English 3
23 February 2023
F.Scott and Zelda F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald both write stories about marriage and love. It makes you question if there are hidden aspects of their marriage and life in their novels. I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. Daisy said this line in F. Scott's famous novel, Great Gatsby, was something right out of the mouth of Zelda. It seems they expressed their love for each other by basing a character off each other or, in F. Scott's case, using an exact quote from his wife. Zelda and Scott met when she was 18, and he was 21; on that fateful day in 1918 when F.Scott was so infatuated with Zelda did he know that this would be the start of a tumultuous, passionate, pleasure-chasing twenty-two-year-long relationship. Daisy Buchanan is the old money girl who was bored in her life of money but ever so exciting, and we cannot forget that she is a southern belle. Zelda Sayre(later Fitzgerald) was from old southern money with a fast and loose lifestyle. In 1921 the daughter of F. Scott and Zelda, Frances, was born. In 1925 the great gatsby was published; subsequently, Daisy and Tom have a five-year-old daughter. His book The Beautiful and Damned is about socialites, the struggles in his marriage, alcoholism, and his army experience. His book Tender is the night is …show more content…

However, throughout their life together, both novelists are not held in the same regard. While F. Scott wrote many books and short stories, Zelda wrote one novel and started writing plays once the novel did not do well. Career-wise, she was always looked over; her husband was the one they looked at, even though F. Scott stole some of Zelda's work; he is still a more refined novelist in other readers'

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