Hello my name is Matt White and I will be presenting my Gatsby research project.

My essential question is "How did the women in Fitzgerald's affect his writing?" I wanted to find out how much of his writing was influenced by the women he was seeing.

As we have learned before Fitzgerald was very addicted to drinking. One of the women in his life, Sheila Graham, helped him lose his addiction. She was very influential in his life and was the main reason he stopped drinking.




Fairey, Wendy. "Shiela Graham." Jewish Women's Archive. Jewish Women's Archive. 2015. Web. 24 March 2015. .

Sheila and Fitzgerald put each other in their books about their experiences with each other. They both heavily influenced each other's writings and Sheila was with Fitzgerald when he died.






Fairey, Wendy. "Shiela Graham." Jewish Women's Archive. Jewish Women's Archive. 2015. Web. 24 March 2015. .
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Zelda Fitzgerald was very influential in F. Scott Fitzgerald's life. She was his wife and hey were very crazy together. They were the party couple and they were the head of the roaring 20's. She was very important in his writing and she was the main female character that he put into his novels.




"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Golden Girl." Life 123. IAC Company, 2015. Web. 30 Mach 2015. .

Zelda was also very influential in Fitzgerald's writings because of their family issues. He would put the situations that he faced during his marriage into his books. This made them more truthful but still fictional.






"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Golden Girl." Life 123. IAC Company, 2015. Web. 30 Mach 2015. .

The last women in Fitzgerald's life was Genevra. She was the first women he fell for and was in his novels a lot. She was hard for him to get so he did not get her and had to move on. Fitzgerald could not unable to attach himself to Ginevra so he had to let her go. There was a barrier between hem that he could not pass.





"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Golden Girl." Life 123. IAC Company, 2015. Web. 30 Mach 2015. .

Ginevra was also very important in Fitzgerald's writing. She was the another main female role in his novels because she was hard to get. He used this to create a character that easy to get to but impossible to capture.






"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Golden Girl." Life 123. IAC Company, 2015. Web. 30 Mach 2015. .

Fitzgerald combined the good characteristics of Zelda and Ginevra to create his golden girl. He used this golden girl to create a character who was impossible to obtain like Ginevra and crazy like Zelda.





"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Golden Girl." Life 123. IAC Company, 2015. Web. 30 Mach 2015. .

Fitzgerald uses this combination to portray Daisy in The Great Gatsby. She is as crazy as Zelda and also impossible for Gatsby to get. Daisy is the best attributes of the to women from Fitzgerald's point of view.






"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Golden Girl." Life 123. IAC Company, 2015. Web. 30 Mach 2015. .

The women in Fitzgerald's life were very influential in his writings. They were used as the main female roles of his novels and he used his own experiences with them as topics for writing.