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). ... In 1917 Fitzgerald first suspected that Ginevra was engaged and wrote about his presumption in his ledger (Lehan "Careless People- 70). ... 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). ... In a letter sent to John Peale Bishop, Fitzgerald tal...

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