Posted by John on July 01, 1999 at 22:45:55:

In Reply to: Re: Symbolism of Daisy in The Great Gatsby posted by Mr.Wolfsheim on May 26, 1999 at 09:36:48:

Daisey is the literary representation of Zelda. Zelda dated Fitzgerald after the war, but left him to be engaged to another man. Zelda left Fitzgerald because he did not have the means to support her lavish lifestyle, which she had become accostumed to.
This is covered extensively in Fitzgerald's first novel "This Side of Paradise". Both This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby are largely autobiographical. After This Side... was published, Zelda broke her engagement, and married Fitxgerald a week later.
Zelda had not ever loved the other man as much as Fitzgerald, but Fitzgerald was poor. He won her over when he grew immensely wealthy and famous after publising This Side... The Great Gatsby is in many ways the second part of the autobiography Fitzgerald strted in This Side.. and Daisey is Zelda, Fitzgerald's wife.
Fitzgerald wrote about Zelda in three novels: This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Tender is the Night (Zelda is the mental patient here, she went insane a few years after the Great Gatsby was published.) She was one of Fitzgerald's greater inspiratins.

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