DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/G839-J615
Defense Date
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Bryant Mangum, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Richard Fine, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
Elizabeth Canfield, Ph.D.
Abstract
This thesis examines Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald’s writing published between 1920 and 1932. To date, biographers and scholars have largely failed to carefully examine and understand Zelda’s publications. During this period Zelda critiques the materialism and generational lack of respect she finds in the North in her articles, while using her imagination to discuss the possibilities of the South in her short stories. All of her works during these years culminate in her novel, Save Me the Waltz, in which much of her life and return to the South is mirrored by her heroine, Alabama Knight. This thesis examines Zelda’s publications in this 1920 to 1932 period in order to reveal her perception of the society she had become a part of when she married F. Scott Fitzgerald and to understand the transition in her desire to at first fit in to the Northern society that expected her to be the flapper and celebrity wife, and then later to find success and self-expression in a return to the South.
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Date of Submission
5-7-2018