F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Son of Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillian, he was named after his second cousin three times removed, Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star Spangle Banner (“A brief life of Fitzgerald” 1). The Fitzgeralds lived quite comfortably on Mary McQuillian’s father’s inheritance of $250,000. While hitting some hard times, his mother’s name and the appearance of money is what had kept the Fitzgeralds in “the country club set” even though there was no constant source of income. Fitzgerald said it best when he stated that he lived in “a house below average, on a street above average” (“Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald” 1-2).

Meyer Wolfsheim has been influenced by Arnold Rothstein a famous gambler in business with Fitzgerald’s neighbor (H, Nicole 1). “Wolfsheim is a memorable figure, and his very ‘sentiment’ creates a kind of absurd horror like modern ‘syndicate’ gangsters who are nice citizens in their own community, and who contribute to boy-scout troops while controlling the sale of narcotics,” (“F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Character Analyses” 3). Arnold was the same way in the fact that he ran racing stables and bail bond operations. He also was accused in master minding large gambling scandals, including the fixing of the 1919 World Series by bribing nine players for the White Sox to throw the game to Cincinnati. Other than Rothstein’s connections with gambling, he was a very kind man who did give back to his community (Rothstein 264).

Daisy Buchanan is actually a combination of Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda and his first girlfriend Ginevra King (H, Nicole 1). Daisy is “Gatsby’s ‘Golden Girl’ who falls into a familiar pattern for Fitzgerald of lovely, delicate, and ‘romantic’ but essentially parasitic and emotionally frigid” (“F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Character Analyses” 2). We see those qualities of Daisy in Zelda herself when she has an affair with the French aviator. Daisy cheats on Tom with Gatsby but in a moment of crisis she comes running back (“F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Character Analyses” 2). These qualities are also shown in Zelda’s breaking of her engagement of Fitzgerald just because he did not make enough money for her. Ginevera King was Fitzgerald’s first real love, but her family rejected him, again due to his insufficient funds. Though Fitzgeralds romance was through with Ginevera before he even met his wife, Zelda, the women in all of Fitzgerald’s novels have a little bit of Ginevera’s personality in them. Ginevera’s father made a comment to Fitzgerald that would stick in his head for the rest of his life. “Poor boys shouldn’t marry rich girls” (“F. Scott Fitzgerald” 369). Destined to prove him wrong, some feel that is why he was so attracted to Zelda (“F. Scott Fitzgerald” 369).

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The Great Gatsby was finally published in 1925, but not before going through at least half a dozen title changes, some of them being, Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires, On The Road To West Egg, and Trimalchio, before finally settling for The

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