Similarities Between Daisy And Zelda In The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby during the height of his career as an author. Although the novel didn’t sell well during his lifetime, after he passed away the sales for The Great Gatsby sky rocketed and the novel became one of his most famous works of literature. Scott Fitzgerald is known for basing events and characters from his novels from his own personal life, and this is especially prominent in The Great Gatsby. In this novel, many of the events and characters reflected his own personal life. Daisy, one of the main characters from the novel, had many striking similarities to his wife Zelda. He used events from her life and experiences that they shared together to write the character Daisy. Scott Fitzgerald based many aspects of the character Daisy Fay Buchanan on his wife Zelda Fitzgerald. One similarity that Daisy and Zelda share is their upbringing. Both women were from rich, well-known, old money, southern families. Daisy …show more content…
She first met him in Paris and at first he was only around Zelda when Scott was with her, but then she began to see him at the beach on her own (Fowler 172-173). Though out that summer Zelda was seen with Jozan at the beach almost every day, but then suddenly she started to go swimming on her own, and she was no longer seen with him (Milford 142). It is rumored that “[t]he confrontation scene at the Plaza between Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom had strong echoes of Zelda, Scott, and Jozan” (Cline Chapter 9), but it is unknown if a confrontation between Scott and Jozan actually happened because Jozan denied that this scene ever occurred (Milford 145). Even though this scene may not have happened, it could have still inspired Scott Fitzgerald to write about the dynamics between Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom because right about the time that Zelda had her affair Scott Fitzgerald was writing The Great Gatsby (Fowler