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Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Partners Or Rivals? Autobiografiction, the Madness Narrative and Gender in Save Me the Waltz and Tender Is the Night Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Partners or Rivals? Autobiografiction, the Madness Narrative and Gender in Save Me the Waltz and Tender is the Night. Paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of “Master in de Supervisor: Taal- en Letterkunde: Engels- Dr. Birgit Van Puymbroeck 2012-2013 Nederlands” by Sarah Malfait Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Partners or Rivals? Autobiografiction, the Madness Narrative and Gender in Save Me the Waltz and Tender is the Night. Paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of “Master in de Supervisor: Taal- en Letterkunde: Engels- Dr. Birgit Van Puymbroeck 2012-2013 Nederlands” by Sarah Malfait Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to thank my parents for giving me the opportunity and the support to pursue my education. Second, I owe great gratitude to dr. Van Puymbroeck for her guidance throughout this process and the time she devoted to providing me with useful comments and suggestions on my writings. Lastly, I would also like to thank my friends, family and boyfriend for all their support, interest and patience while I was writing this MA dissertation. Malfait I Contents Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................................. I Contents .................................................................................................................................................. II Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1 1 Biography ......................................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Francis Scott Fitzgerald ............................................................................................................ 4 1.2 Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald .............................................................................................................. 5 1.3 Married life .............................................................................................................................. 9 2 Theoretical Framework ................................................................................................................. 17 2.1 Autobiografiction................................................................................................................... 17 2.2 The Madness Narrative ......................................................................................................... 22 2.3 Gender, Patriarchy and Flappers ........................................................................................... 26 3 Discussion of the Novels: Autobiografiction ................................................................................. 32 3.1 Autobiografiction in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night ............................................... 32 3.2 Autobiografiction in Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz................................................... 41 3.3 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................. 48 4 Discussion of the Novels: The Madness Narrative ........................................................................ 51 4.1 The Madness Narrative in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night ...................................... 52 4.2 The Madness Narrative in Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz ......................................... 59 4.3 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................. 67 5 Discussion Of the Novels: Gender, Patriarchy and Flappers ......................................................... 69 5.1 Gender in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night ............................................................... 69 5.2 Gender in Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz ................................................................... 77 5.3 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................. 83 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................. 85 Works cited ............................................................................................................................................ 90 Primary sources ................................................................................................................................. 90 Secondary sources ............................................................................................................................. 90 Malfait II Introduction For the public at large, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald (1900- 1948) are generally perceived as glamorous representatives par excellence of the Roaring Twenties and the flapper-lifestyle. The couple experienced the extravagant lifestyle of partying, drinking and spending money that Scott fictionalized and promoted in The Great Gatsby (1925). However, Zelda is also known for a less glamorous aspect of her persona, namely her mental problems, diagnosed as schizophrenia. This public image of Zelda as a madwoman was reinforced by the explicit portrayal of the schizophrenic Nicole, Zelda’s fictional counterpart in Scott’s Tender Is the Night (1934). For this reason, Zelda Fitzgerald’s only novel Save Me the Waltz (1932) is often read as a curiosity, the expression of a mentally unstable person who was interesting because she was the wife of the bestselling American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald rather than an author in her own right. In itself, Save Me the Waltz has earned little recognition, even though – as I will establish in this dissertation – it bears some unique qualities. Much has been written about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, but only a few critics have made a comparative study of both Tender Is the Night and Save Me the Waltz. It has been acknowledged that the Fitzgeralds’ fiction is thoroughly rooted in their own lives, but I would like to take this observation a step further. Their fictional writings also affected the couple’s real life. Zelda and Scott dealt with more or less the same material in the novels at hand, but the fictionalisations of a shared experience caused severe tensions in their marriage. Therefore, I study the Fitzgeralds’ complex relationship between work and biography: I will show how Save Me the Waltz and Tender Is the Night reveal a tense dialogue between the Fitzgeralds, shedding new light on the novels as well as on the Malfait 1 couple’s real-life relationship. There is a struggle between the spouses concerning self- expression and the self-fashioning of their image through their fiction. Both of them want to adjust or maintain the public image that exists of them. I elucidate this tension between the spouses and the relation between the Fitzgeralds’ biography and fiction by reading both novels from three related perspectives: autobiografiction, the madness narrative and gender. In this dissertation, I read Zelda’s Save Me the Waltz alongside her husband’s last novel published during his lifetime, Tender Is the Night1. I argue that both novels are examples of ‘autobiografiction’, a genre in which autobiography and fiction meet. Throughout the discussion of Zelda’s and Scott’s work, it will become clear that their fiction is thoroughly rooted in their own lives, leaving recognizable traces of experienced events, emotions and struggles out of their lives in both narratives. I indicate a number of these traces and examine the reasons both authors had for using the genre of ‘autobiografiction’ in their novels. Since Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia, the Fitzgeralds’ lives were marked by moments of crisis, breakdowns and a series of hospitalizations in mental facilities. These experiences left a great impact on both Zelda and her husband Scott since they both devoted their novels to the subject. Because Save Me the Waltz and Tender Is the Night deal with mental illness, they can be called madness narratives, although it is more implicit in Zelda’s case. I explore the way in which insanity is portrayed by Zelda, who suffered from mental illness and by Scott who observed her mental breakdowns from up close. I also examine how the novels reflect the socio-historical context in which they were produced, and more specifically the status and role of women in society. Despite feminist 1 Fitzgerald’s last novel The Love of the Last Tycoon was left unfinished and published posthumously in 1941. Malfait 2 attempts at emancipation, the average American woman in the 1920s was considered subordinate to her husband. Her ultimate role in life was that of a good housewife and mother. I will analyse how Zelda and the female protagonists of both novels try to evade, if not transform gender limitations to achieve a sense of personal fulfilment outside the private sphere of the home. Since the Fitzgeralds dealt with autobiographical experiences and events in their work, I start off with a biography of both spouses’ youth and lives. After that, I outline a theoretical framework of the three subjects that I will be dealing with: ‘autobiografiction’,
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