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Love & Life: A Parallel of Love in F. Scott Fitzerald's Life to The Great Gatsby
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Reflection:
I was fascinated by the scrapblog resource that Mrs. Perlman introduced to us when this project was assigned. Using my creative design skills from Yearbook, I went to work creating a montage of Gatsby and Daisy's relationship throughout the novel. Midway through work on my project, I decided to incorporate F. Scott Fitzgerald's life into the scrapblog to give the project more depth. I immediately and incorrectly assumed that his relationship with his wife Zelda Sayre was the inspiration for the passionate love Gatsby and Daisy shared in his masterpiece. Upon further investigation, I discovered Fitzgerald's "Golden Girl," Ginevra King. I was amazed by the parallels between this 1920's socialite and Daisy's character. Sifting through letters and reading her actual quotations, it was clear that Fitzgerald's muse for Daisy was Ginevra, not his wife.

A Notes Reference:
The following two websites gave me basic biographical information on F. Scott Fitzgerald and pictures: http://www.jameslogancourier.org/index.php?itemid=680 http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html My investigation of Ginevra King's character could not have been accomplished without the documents provided by Princeton University's library and their online review, which included quotes from Ginevra's diary and letters and detailed the relationship between Fitzgerald and this woman. They also suggested the comparison between Daisy and Ginevra which led to my project's ultimate message. For more information on this intriguing relationship, visit: [|http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW03-04/04-1105/feature1.html] http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/03/q3/0905-fitzgerald.htm Thinkexist.com and Fitzgerald's __The Great Gatsby__ (pages cited within project) provided quotes about love that are scattered throughout my scrapblog. And lastly, this project would not have been possible without the incredible resource of www.scrapblog.com, which I used for the creation of my fabulous project.