An Afternoon with Zelda Fitzgerald

Entrevista en ingles a Zelda Fitzgerald

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An Afternoon with Zelda Fitzgerald

By, Carlota Daniela Tejedo Adame.

Paris, May, 1924

Hello my dear readers, here I am, CD, with a new interview for all of you.

This week I met an splendorous, but a little crazy woman, Zelda Fitzgerald. Yes! The true love of the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. I hope you enjoy reading this interview as much as I enjoyed my afternoon with Zelda.

* Hello Zelda, I am so glad to meet you; it’s a pleasure having you here, in my house.

* Oh, well thank you very much for the invitation, I am so excited about having an interview.

* I’m happy to hear that, if things are like that, let’s get started.

* Tell me Zelda, how was your early life and your family?

* I was born in Montgomery, Alabama; I am the youngest of six children. My mother, Minerva Buckner "Minnie" Machen, named me after characters in two little-known stories: Jane Howard's "Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony" and Robert Edward Francillon's "Zelda's Fortune". I was a spoiled child by my mother, but her father, Anthony Dickinson Sayre, a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and one of Alabama's leading jurists, was a strict and remote man. As a child I was extremely active. I danced, took ballet lessons and enjoyed the outdoors. In 1914, I began attending Sidney Lanier High School, but I was uninterested in my lessons. My work in ballet continued into high school, where I had an active social life. I drank, smoked and spent much of her time with boys, you know, fun stuff. Southern women of the time were expected to be delicate, docile and accommodating. I do not like that style.

* Since a little baby you were so interesting, now tell me Zelda, where do you meet Scott?

* In a dance club in Montgomery, he fall in love with me; he was stationed at Camp Sheridan, outside Montgomery. Scott began to call me daily, and came into Montgomery on his free days. He talked of his plans to be famous, and sent me a chapter of a book he was writing.

* That’s so romantic! How started your marriage my dear Zelda?

* By September, Scott had completed his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and the manuscript was quickly accepted for publication. When he heard the novel had been accepted, Scott wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins, urging an accelerated release: "I have so many things dependent on its success, including of course a girl." In November, he returned to Montgomery,