Zelda, when her child is born, says "I hope it's beautiful and a fool--a beautiful little fool." In the Great Gatsby, Daisy says of her own daughter "Im glad it's a girl. And i hope she'll be a fool...a beautiful little fool."

She let him copy from her diary, and he copied from her letters. The content taken from her was used in "This Side of Paradise."

In an interview, Scott said, "I married the heroine of my stories," which sounds loving but is meant literally. He created scenarios for Zelda to enact (such as her affair with a French lieutenant) in order to have material for Gatsby and Daisy.

The most obvious mirrored character is Daisy and Zelda. Daisy was a wealthy socialite who would not marry Gatsby until he was rich and had affluence.

Zelda's semi-autobiographical novel, Save Me The Waltz angered Scott as it contained material from their lives, which he had also used for his novel Tender Is the Night. When is was revealed that both Fitzgeralds' books covered the same material, Zelda was the one who received backlash. Scott forced her to revise heavily, and while his book is a renowned classic, hers is hardly known.

The Jazz Age is a name Fitzgerald created and gave for the 1920's. There was a booming economy, and just like the Great Gatsby, social hierarchy became disrupted as the newly rich rose to the upper ranks but could not quite join Old Money aristocrats. All of Fitzgerald's books are heavily influenced, if not totally dependent upon the age in which he lived.

New York City, in which he and Zelda lived, was the location for the 1922 novel The Beautiful and the Damned. As for The Great Gatsby, the fictional towns of East and West Egg are based on Long Island, where he lived in 1922.

During the Roaring Twenties, the American Dream of become rich from a state of poverty seemed more achievable than ever. Earlier, pioneers had gone East to find their fortune, but now, people went East (New York City) to be in the midst of luxury. Gatsby represents the naivety of someone who who thinks that the American Dream can fulfill all of a person's hopes.

In the early twenties, his career took off, but his popularity plummeted during The Great Depression.

Although his stories are highly autobiographical, Fitzgerald wasn't only recounting his life in fiction. In this sense he plays the part of Nick Carraway, in that he is in the middle of the action (as a Jazz Age celebrity) while being able to objectively observe what is happening.

Legend says that as a young man, Fitzgerald was told by the wealthy father of an earlier girlfriend that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls."

Whether or not the incident occurred, Fitzgerald evidently internalized this idea and wrote it into The Debutante and This Side of Paradise.

The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise depicted the values and way of life of the post-war generation

Zelda and Scott embodied the wild pace and setting of the above lifestyles because of their constant partying and drinking, and extravagant spending.

In the bleak novel The Beautiful and The Damned, Fitzgerald depicts the downward spiral of his and Zelda's relationship.

The main characters, whose prospects seem so promising at the beginning follow a similar falling trajectory as the Fitzgeralds.

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