"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year. Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."

 

So I started The Great Gatsby last night and realized I would finish much sooner than anticipated so to fill my time I decided to read a little about Scottie and Zelda.  

 

Interesting facts about the Fitzgerald’s:

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald is a distant relative of Francis Scott Key who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner. He was named after him so his full name is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He also passed down the “F. Scott” tradition to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald.

2. This Side of Paradise was the novel that put Scott on the map. Essentially Zelda wouldn’t marry a man who was unsuccessful in his career so she broke off her engagement to him. Heartbroken and (presumably from his reputation) fueled with belly full of alcohol, he returns home to finish the novel with the ultimate goal of winning Zelda back. Oh the things we do for love but was it worth it Scottie?

3. Zelda suffered from two breakdowns which ultimately landed her in a mental hospital. From what I have read and understand about Zelda, she was a force to be reckoned with but she did not know how to slow down which is perhaps why her last days were spent in the sanitarium. Here she wrote her only publish novel Save Me the Waltz and not long after, is also where she perished from a fire.