... or money- (qtd. in Lehan "Careless People- 71). Fitzgerald felt his lack of money was why Ginevra married someone else (Lehan "Careless People- 71). "[. . .] Daisy Fay Buchannan was named for Henry James heroine; Daisy Miller- (Malcolm Cowley). Lehan relates Daisy to Ginevra and shows how Fitzgerald uses Ginevra in a variety of his works. The story [of Gatsby] was compelling for Fitzgerald because it was ... ."" (Lehan "Careless People- 67) Robert Stallman also noted that, "both of the women who deceived him in the novel, rhyme with his name, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Fay and Ella Kay- (qtd. in ...

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... trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in its pursuit. In the past, Jay had a love affair with the beautiful and seemingly innocent Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to accumulate his wealth to reach her economic ... and social standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them ... the worthlessness of materialism, the futile quest of Myrtle and G...

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