An Autobiographical Portrayal

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performed it during the Christmas vacation in a dozen major cities across
the country. Fitzgerald was also elected to “Cottage,” which was one of the
big four clubs at Princeton. “Its lavish weekend parties in impressive
surroundings, which attracted girls from New York, Philadelphia and beyond,
may well have provided the first grain of inspiration for Fitzgerald’s
portrayal of Jay Gatsby’s fabulous parties on Long Island” (Meyers, 27).
Although Fitzgerald was a “social butterfly” while at Princeton, he never
had any girlfriends. However, at a Christmas dance in St. Paul, MN during
his sophomore year, he met Ginevra King, a sophisticated sixteen-year-old
who was visiting her roommate, and immediately fell in love with her.
Although Scott loved Ginevra to the point of infatuation, she was too
self-absorbed to notice. Their one-sided romance persisted for the next two
years. Fitzgerald would send ...

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in her voice that
men who had cared for her found difficult to forget” (Fitzgerald, 14). It
should be noted that, “Gatsby’s ability, like Fitzgerald’s, ‘to keep that
illusion perfect’ sustains his self-deceptive and ultimately
self-destructive quest, with the help of his own fabulous money, to win
Daisy back from her husband” (Meyers, 30).
Although Ginevra King was Fitzgerald’s first true love, she certainly was
not his last. In July 1918, while stationed in Montgomery, Alabama with the
military, Scott met a gracious, soft-voiced girl named Zelda Sayre at a
country club dance. Scott recalled that night that, ...

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