The Magic Treehouse series and The Great Gatsby

As far as Arthurian legend goes, there are a lot of really obvious replications, but in lieu of not repeating what's already been said, I was thinking and remembered that the series The Magic Treehouse series had some rather obvious allusions to the Arthur tales.

These were awesome.

The most commonly mentioned was a woman who owned the treehouse, who was named Morgan Le Fay, the name of a character in Arthurian legend- I believe she's a witch. She was always a very mysterious character, and you never found out too much about her; one thing that we did learn, however, was that she resided in the realm of Camelot (Coincidence? I think not.). I don't honestly remember much more about her- though she did actually send the kids (Jack and Annie? I think that's their names) to Camelot in a superbly epic Christmas adventure.

SO wanted a white stag to ride after I first saw this cover. And a red cape, for that matter.

 I don't remember whether she was good, bad, or ambiguous in the stories, but I was always quite intrigued by her. Just a side-note on this series: how interesting is it that it was teaching kids history while meanwhile being heavily based in mythological characters?

Okay, now for the more vague one. I wish I could claim this one as my own idea, but alas I cannot. I heard someone mention it once and just sort of expanded on it. There are some allusions to King Arthur in the Great Gatsby.

To a certain extent, one can see the relationship between Gatsby, Daisy, and Daisy's husband Tom as a reflection of Lancelot, Guinevere, and King Arthur. Just as Lancelot's one weakness was Guinevere, so Gatsby's one weakness was Daisy. And, accordingly, the actual husband in each story was veritably ticked off. In a separate parallel to Arthur, at one point in The Great Gatsby it says, "...he had committed himself to the following of a grail." Daisy was Gatsby's holy Grail, the thing that he searched after and fought for for years. She was, as the grail was for many knights, his one pursuit in life.