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F. Scott Fitzgerald, the literary wizard behind The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night, was married to a woman named Zelda (a talented painter and writer in her own right).
The couple’s relationship in the best of times could have been defined as intoxicating. They were the power couple of the roaring twenties with larger-than-life personalities, brilliant innovative talents and a shared fondness for throwing lavish parties that shook whatever city they were calling home.
But, in the worst of times, their relationship was horrendously toxic, riddled with mutual infidelity, knock-down drag-out fights, extreme jealousy, alcoholism and low blows.
Literally.
During one of these bouts of the latter, Zelda said something to Scott that derailed him –– so much so that he consulted his friend and contemporary at the time, Ernest Hemingway.
In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway writes of the encounter.
At the time, the two were sitting in a Parisian cafe enjoying a cherry tart and a glass of wine when Fitzgerald confided in him…
“Zelda said that Hem and Scott I just finished a book about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald called &#;Z.&#; It was interesting. Zelda&#;s hatred for Hemingway came across loud and clear. I know that it&#;s historically true. However, there&#;s a claim that Hemingway came on to her, which didn&#;t strike me as true based on all that I&#;ve read and Hem&#;s feelings toward/against her. And there&#;s another portion in which she wonders if her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Hemingway were closet homosexuals who had an attraction to each other. I don&#;t know that much about F. Scott Fitzgerald, but there&#;s not anything in the volumes that I&#;ve read about Hemingway and his past that would even slightly suggest that. I&#;ve read all of the hypotheses that Hemingway went ultra-macho to compensate for homosexual feelings. I don&#;t see that but everyone can have an opinion. Those comments aside, I found that I had sympathy for Zelda&#;s plight and her frustration in her life with F. Scott Fitzgerald. I also couldn&#;t help comparing Fitzgerald, of cou By Catie Summers, V Form Tantalizing Taboos: Homoerotic Language in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald does a fantastic job of lacing taboos throughout The Great Gatsby. The most common, however, is homosexuality and homoerotica. Of course, the outlook on homosexuality and the rest of the LGBTQ+ community has changed dramatically over the past one hundred years. It was quite negative and derogatory during the time of the story, commonly referred to as the Roaring Twenties. F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates aspects of homosexuality in The Great Gatsby through the narrator, Nick Carraway, and his interactions with other male characters throughout the novel. Specifically, Nick’s descriptive language carries a homoerotic affect, meaning his presence in the narrative invites, at least, a queer reading of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald premiers Nick’s homoerotic tone in his description of male characters, particularly in Tom Buchanan. When Nick first meets Tom, Nick speaks as though in reverence of Tom’s physique by stating, “not even the effeminate swank of his ri The early 20th century celebrated homophobic writers of high reputation. We were taught their work in school. They were reviewed in quality publications. And they were looked up to as wise men. No matter how brilliantly written, many 20th century novels have homophobic elements. How can these celebrated novels help us comprehend homophobia? One cautionary note: Looking at homophobic content in novels is not the same as saying that a writer&#;s work is worthless. People are mosaics, and prejudice can verb side by side with courage and creativity. But we can learn something from scrutinising the attitudes in these books, and perhaps it&#;s long past time &#; queer writers had to suffer sceptical, sometimes patronising reviews for generations. Most of us think of homophobia as if it were something toxic in the air or the moisture. Equal marriage laws and visible queer people build us feel it&#;s getting better. Homophobic laws favor the &#;LGBT-free&#; zones in Poland make us experience less hopeful. During his Literary Salon event on 18 Februa
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