Side of Paradise. The priest was a sort of father to him. Fitzgerald even used actual letters from Fay to put in his novel (Mizener 45).
             Amory's love relationships were all founded on the author's own. His main love interest Rosalind was partly based on Zelda Sayre, the woman the author would later marry. She was a girl who "had envisioned that her life required success-financial as well as social" (Greenfeld 47). Sadly, Fitzgerald could not quite yet fulfill that vision, so Zelda left him. How she broke the news is portrayed in This Side of Paradise as he writes:
             "I can't", says Rosalind to Amory, "be shut away from the trees and flowers, cooped up in a little flat, waiting for you. You'd hate me in a narrow atmosphere. I'd make you hate me.... I wouldn't be the Rosalind you love.... I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. I don't want to think about posts and kitchens and brooms. I want to worry whether my legs will get slick and bro
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