Money. Social status. Love affairs. These are three of the many important themes used by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel “The Beautiful And Damned.” Fitzgerald uses these themes to convey a message to his readers. This message is that no matter how high up in society someone is that doesn’t mean they will be satisfied in the end. Things such as money and status can all change in an instant, they are not permanent, instead materialistic. The materialist can prove to ruin one's relationship with the ones they love the most. Money, social status and love affairs all contributed to the downfall of one's life in the 20th century and it was no different in Fitzgerald's novel. Fitzgerald uses the theme of money to show how the materialistic does
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Scott Fitzgerald's novel “The Beautiful and Damned” was his bleakest novel written that was affected by a tone of cynicism. According to Scott Donaldson, “not even Fitzgerald seems to care, particularly about Anthony and Gloria Patch.” Usually when an author writes there becomes some sort of an attachment to the fictional characters created but with this novel that is not the case. Here the author does not care what happens to them, all they are to him are some characters in a book who were spoiled and in a way selfish. This was because he wrote them in such a way that they only cared about their beauty, social status and wealth. According to Donaldson, Fitzgerald wrote this novel in order to show “the effects of money and power on …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald was one of money, social status and love affairs. All these theme connected to one another ins sense that an individual could not achieve one successfully without the other one following suite. These three themes are many of the ones the author hides throughout his novel, and these three are tied together and used to convey a message to his readers. That message is ultimately that money, social status and love affairs do not make a person who they are these days. What should make them who they are, are not the materialistic because those could be gone in a snap, but who they are on the inside and how they treat those around them. Anthony and Gloria had always been concerned about the materialistic instead of what matter most. Beauty and money are not
Scott Fitzgerald's novel “The Beautiful and Damned” was his bleakest novel written that was affected by a tone of cynicism. According to Scott Donaldson, “not even Fitzgerald seems to care, particularly about Anthony and Gloria Patch.” Usually when an author writes there becomes some sort of an attachment to the fictional characters created but with this novel that is not the case. Here the author does not care what happens to them, all they are to him are some characters in a book who were spoiled and in a way selfish. This was because he wrote them in such a way that they only cared about their beauty, social status and wealth. According to Donaldson, Fitzgerald wrote this novel in order to show “the effects of money and power on …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald was one of money, social status and love affairs. All these theme connected to one another ins sense that an individual could not achieve one successfully without the other one following suite. These three themes are many of the ones the author hides throughout his novel, and these three are tied together and used to convey a message to his readers. That message is ultimately that money, social status and love affairs do not make a person who they are these days. What should make them who they are, are not the materialistic because those could be gone in a snap, but who they are on the inside and how they treat those around them. Anthony and Gloria had always been concerned about the materialistic instead of what matter most. Beauty and money are not