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Who Was Jay Gatsby?
by publicreader | January 14, 2007 at 08:39 am | 524 views | add comment | 0 recommendations
Andrew Gallimore, author of "Occupation Prizefighter: The Freddie Welsh Story," has found an odd link between Welsh and Jay Gatsby, The Times of London reported. Not long before Fitzgerald submitted the manuscript to his publisher, Welsh was involved in a car crash in New Jersey, injuring a woman named Myrtle Wilson.
Was Gatsby, Fitzgerald's most durable hero and one of the icons of twentieth century fiction, modeled on a prizefighter named Freddie? Matthew Bruccoli is a Fitzgerald scholar who doubts that Gatsby has such a clear lineage, although in the novel Daisy Buchanan kills one Myrtle Wilson in Gatsby's car. Gatsby is "80 percent Fitzgerald and 20% other sources" says Bruccoli..
Still, great literature keeps making news- just not often enough.
January 14, 2007 at 08:39 am by publicreader, 524 views, add comment
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