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# Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/scott-and-zelda-fitzgerald/
- Published: 2025-11-01T20:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-03T13:37:08.000Z
- Description: The marriage was so dysfunctional, Hemingway said Zelda criticized Fitzgerald's, ahem, size just to destroy him.
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Biography, Briefly

"\[W\]hile drunk, the Fitzgeralds' idea of amusing behavior was to collect everyone's watch and jewelry and boil them in a can over the stove; or to call out the fire department--upon the arrival of which Zelda, pointing to her left breast, would claim that the fire was in her heart; or to destroy apartments, their own and other people's; or to insult servants, friends, and anyone else in sight, with Scott often ending the evening by getting in a fist fight, which he would inevitably lose. Not quite, the Fitzgeralds, what we should call today a 'fun couple.'" 

"The Fitzgeralds, Scott and Zelda, were to drinking what Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were to dancing." 

Joseph Epstein, [***Life Sentences***](https://link.amazon/B05kUtcoJ?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)