How Did Zelda Influence The Great Gatsby
Throughout generations writers’ personal experiences have been reflected in their writings, whether they intend for them too or not. Their writings have been based on their experiences which can create an empowering story, as shown in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writings. Throughout the years of his life, Fitzgerald had stored information about major characters in his own life, which he then went on to amplify their personality, to create novels. When first coming across Fitzgerald and the meticulous research created based off of his writings, it seems that he simply created his lead characters in his novel off of his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald; however, when searching in depth it becomes prominent that Ginevra King, was the inspiration behind Fitzgerald’s
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Many came to believe that Zelda the inspiration behind the character, Daisy Buchanan, in reality King was again the true influence of this character and her actions. Zelda had a significant influence on Fitzgerald’s life however, King was the main influence for his writings, “Zelda was the most important woman in his life. But Ginevra was extremely important to his writing. He based character after character on her through his career, and yet we’ve known almost nothing of her, (West).” Even some of the major details represented in the novel where apparent in Fitzgerald’s life and were created by King, again showing how King’s influence in Fitzgerald’s life displayed as a key factor in his writings. When just focusing on the details and events that occurred in Fitzgerald’s and King’s life and counter referencing them back to The Great Gatsby, the amount of overlapping of ideas and events in phenomenal. One of the details being how they meet, and how things ended between them. Just like Daisy did, King left him for another, richer, man. Kings was part of the highest ranking in society, being part of Chicago’s Big Four debutantes; being part of some of the richest people in the area, a place where Fitzgerald and Gatsby, in the beginnings of their lives, did not understand. Later in their lives, King too goes on to marry a rich man just
Many came to believe that Zelda the inspiration behind the character, Daisy Buchanan, in reality King was again the true influence of this character and her actions. Zelda had a significant influence on Fitzgerald’s life however, King was the main influence for his writings, “Zelda was the most important woman in his life. But Ginevra was extremely important to his writing. He based character after character on her through his career, and yet we’ve known almost nothing of her, (West).” Even some of the major details represented in the novel where apparent in Fitzgerald’s life and were created by King, again showing how King’s influence in Fitzgerald’s life displayed as a key factor in his writings. When just focusing on the details and events that occurred in Fitzgerald’s and King’s life and counter referencing them back to The Great Gatsby, the amount of overlapping of ideas and events in phenomenal. One of the details being how they meet, and how things ended between them. Just like Daisy did, King left him for another, richer, man. Kings was part of the highest ranking in society, being part of Chicago’s Big Four debutantes; being part of some of the richest people in the area, a place where Fitzgerald and Gatsby, in the beginnings of their lives, did not understand. Later in their lives, King too goes on to marry a rich man just