Biographical Influences In The Great Gatsby

Part I of Essay
"My book is wonderful" Fitzgerald wrote to Edmund Wilson from France in the fall of 1924-"so is the air and the sea." I have got my health back-I no longer cough and itch and roll from one side of the bed to the other all night and have a hollow ache in my stomach after t ....

Part II of Essay
.... of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby are shown through not only Nick Carraway's dedication to achieving wealth, but also in the very vivid comparisons between Daisy Buchanan and Zelda Fitzgerald, and between Jay Gatsby and Fitzgerald himself. In many of Fitzgerald's stories he uses his real life experiences, and in The Great Gatsby he chose to use some of his wife's experiences to make the character Daisy Buchanan. Zelda Fitzgerald was an enormous part of her husband's life, as was Daisy to her fictional husband Tom Buchanan. Ze ....