Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920's, he used a variety of sources to develop the setting, themes and characters. ... 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). ... 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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