loved. Fitzgerald spent more money than he was making to keep Zelda happy, and Gatsby spends a great deal of money on parties to impress Daisy ("The Great Gatsby" 1). "They both represent a dramatization of the false dream of money, which Fitzgerald had been fascinated with all his life" ("Structure of The Great Gatsby" 1).Daisy Buchanan is actually a combination of Fitzgerald's wife Zelda and his first girlfriend Ginevra King (H, Nicole 1). Daisy is "Gatsby's 'Golden Girl' who falls into a familiar pattern for Fitzgerald of lovely, delicate, and 'romantic' but essentially parasitic and emotionally frigid" ("F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Character Analyses" 2). We see those qualities of Daisy in Zelda herself when she has an affair with the French aviator. Daisy cheats on Tom with Gatsby but in a moment of crisis she comes running back ("F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Character Analyses" 2). These qualities are also shown in Zelda's breaking of her engagement of Fitzgerald just because he did not make enough money for her. Ginevera King was Fitzgerald's first real love, but her family rejected him, again due to his insufficient funds. Though Fitzgeralds romance was through with Ginevera before he even met his wife, Zelda, the women in all of Fitzgerald's novels have a little bit of Ginevera's personality in them. Ginevera's father made a comment to Fitzgerald that would stick in his head for the rest of his life. "Poor boys shouldn't marry rich girls" ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" 369). Destined to prove him wrong, some feel that is why he was so attracted to Zelda ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" 369).Tom Buchanan's major influence is thought to be Tommy Hitchcock, war hero and champion polo player (H, Nicole 1). Born in 1900, Tommy Hitchcock was, at the time of the writing of "Gatsby," a world famous champion polo player. From 1922-1940, with the exception of 1935, he had received the coveted 10-goal handicap rating, the highes...
