The Name Daisy: The Great Gatsby and Chaucer's Prologue to The Legend of Good Women

Author / Editor
Luft, Joanna, and Thomas Dilworth.

Title
The Name Daisy: The Great Gatsby and Chaucer's Prologue to The Legend of Good Women

Published
F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 8 (2010): 79-91.

Description
Rejects a previous attempt to link Fitzgerald's Daisy Fay and Alceste of LGWP, arguing instead that, via imagery, Gatsby's love for Daisy in the novel resonates with the love of Chaucer's narrator for the daisy in the poem.

Contributor
Dilworth, Thomas.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Legend of Good Women