a different perspective and include his self in both the characters of Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway.As in many of Fitzgerald's works, he writes about a "golden girl"1), the desire of every man that he couldn't have. In the case of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald creates the character of Daisy to fit this discription. In actuality the motivation for Fitzgerald's writing about the golden girl came from real events. Ginevra King "was the love of [Fitzgerald's] young life."2) In Ginevra's eyes, however, Fitzgerald was simply one of the many men in her young life and "when it came time she dropped him."3)Most importantly, however, "his rejection by Ginevra motivated much of his fiction."4) In The Great Gatsby, Daisy is shown by the end to be a very careless and confused who "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness... and let other people clean up the mess they had made."5) This statement from the novel relates to Fitzgeralds own fealings for Ginevra who used him, then dropped him when it came time leaving Francis devastated.6) This rejection shaped Fitzgeralds view of women in general and thus affected his characterization of women. The "romance" between Fitzgerald and Ginevra King is also given meaning in The Great Gatsby as Ginevra King and Fitzgerald himself came from different social worlds just as Daisy and young poor Gatsby did. In both situations, the woman came from the aristocratic "old money" rich and the guys were respectivly poor in comparison.Fitzgerald, later in life, was from the middle class and in this way can be compared to the narrator, Nick Carraway. His social situation was the same and this perspective of the relationships between the rich and poor allowed Fitzgerald to write of his own experiences with Ginevra King. As Fitzgerald himself puts it, "The whole idea of Gatsby is the unfairness of a poor young man not being able to marry a girl with money....
