1. I have chosen the allusion describes on pages 62-65, 67, 84-85 when Bechdel compares her father to Fitzgerald and Gatsby.
2. On these pages, Bechdel first presents that her father was deeply influenced by Fitzgerald for years through noticing the letters her father wrote to her mother. At the same time, her father has identical traits with Fitzgerald’s character Gatsby as they are both generous, filling book shelves with real books, and prefers fiction to reality. Even the lifespans of Fitzgerald and Gatsby are the same as the one of her father, that they all died in the same month, week, and age.
3. The three features I have ranked as most significant are the description of Gatsby’s and her father’s transformation from farm boy to
