Fitzgerald.Īlabama sees both her sisters experience heartbreak as their father disapproves of their suitors of choice.
The first part of the novel recounts Alabama’s youth, and her meeting her future husband David, the book’s stand-in for Scott F. Alabama is, in almost every way, representative of Zelda, and their lives mirror each other almost exactly until later on in the book. Her father is an esteemed judge, a distant and stern man, and her mother dotes on her and her older sisters. The protagonist is Alabama Beggs, who at the start of the novel is a young girl from a good Southern family. The novel reflects Zelda’s anxieties to do something for herself and move out of the shadow of her husband’s accomplishments. Save Me the Waltz is based on their time together in the France, which represented the beginning of the decline of their marriage. Zelda and Scott had lived glory days as the most famous couple of the Jazz Age in New York, following the success of his first novel This Side of Paradise.
It is a semi-autobiographical account of her relationship with Scott, providing insight into their disturbed marriage.
Published in 1932, it was written in six weeks while Zelda was hospitalized for schizophrenia. Save Me the Waltz is the only novel ever written by Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of famous American writer F.
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