1. Fitzgerald's Personal Background Paralleled with the Characters in The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald's Personal Background Paralleled with the Characters in The Great Gatsby As F. ... His mother's father was a self made Irish immigrant millionaire, and his father was a salesman who married above his social class and squandered the family fortune (Reynolds 2360). ... Fitzgerald ties Ginevra in with the character of Daisy and many other women in his novels. ... The same daisy (yellow within/ white without) relates her to the books many "eggs- and implies that she is not a daisy but a rotten egg because she does not contain the seeds of life but of death (Stark 61). ......
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