1. Fitzgerald's Personal Background Paralleled with the Characters in The Great Gatsby
... other women in his novels. Kenneth Eble is quoted as saying, "the details of Gatsby's and Daisy's love affair all come from Fitzgerald's own experience delete [] [. . .]- (99). Fitzgerald advised his daughter, Scottie, to marry someone who follows a "calculated path stemming from a talent or money- (qtd. in Lehan "Careless People- 71). Fitzgerald felt his lack of money was why Ginevra married someone ... that he kept of the major events in his life [. . .]. So deep was his love for Ginevra King that fifteen years later he was writing about her in his Josephine stories, and twenty years ...
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- Grade Level: High School