Analysis Of Babylon Revisited By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Regrets of his past “Babylon Revisited” “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a dramatic short story, it’s about Charlie Wales, a man that made a lot of mistakes and he regrets the choices he made. He is trying to retrieve his daughter back to start a new life with her. In this short story, Charlie had experienced happiness and sadness throughout the story but, he became stronger and wanted to get is life back together again. In his revisit to Paris, his past comes and haunts him and causes him problems, while he is trying to get his daughter back. In summary of the article “Fitzgerald 's Mentors: Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy” by Ronald Berman states that Charlie wasn’t just gone not only for time but himself to and this short story relates to other stories that are really similar to “Babylon Revisited”. It also tells us that the stories have a meaning to eat and how they want to fix their mistakes and get …show more content…
Tuner, it talks about how Charlie is trying to get his life back together and how he has many obstacles to face down the way. One of them being Marion his sister in law and the other being his past. He is trying to show everyone he cares about that he has changed and that he is a better person. All he wants is a second chance and he wants his daughter to live with him again (282-83). He had many obstacles to face and in the end, he wasn’t able to get Honoria back. Marion wasn’t so good with the idea of Charlie taking Honoria away from her and Lincoln her husband. So throughout everything that happened Lincoln told Charlie “I know this isn’t altogether your fault, but I can’t have her going to pieces about it. I’m afraid we’ll have to let it slide fir six months; I can’t take the chance of working her up to this state again (Fitzgerald 399). So after everything Charlie did to get his daughter back nothing worked out and now he has to wait a little longer for her to go live with