"The Great Gatsby": Zelda and Daisy

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"The Great Gatsby" offers a wide range of themes: the Lost Generation, The American Dream, the decline of the west, among others. The paper shows, however, that the novel is also undeniably based on the lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda, and other people that Fitzgerald knew. The paper questions whether Daisy Buchanan is a fictionalized version of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.

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"By the time Scott was thirty, he was an alcoholic, barely able even to write when sober; and by the time Zelda was thirty, four years later, she had been institutionalized for madness, later diagnosed as schizophrenic. Although beyond the ken of the author in France, toiling away on his novel, the portent of alcoholism, madness, and promiscuity may have figured in his creative depiction of his once and future life."

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