Drinking the Memory Away “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you” (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”). This particular quote by made by Fitzgerald shows the powerful supremacy that alcohol can have over an individual’s body. F. Scott Fitzgerald was notoriously known for his intricate reflection of culture life in the 1920’s and 1930’s. With that being said, Fitzgerald not only wrote stories that reflected general aspects of culture life, but also wrote about his own personal struggles with alcohol and family. Fitzgerald composed “Babylon Revisited” as reminisce of his complex life that he once lived during the 1920’s that focuses on the destructive power that alcohol had over him. The symbolic complexity of alcohol
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Five-course dinners, four francs fifty, eighteen cents, wine restaurant in Paris. For some odd reason he wished that he had” (Fitzgerald 700). This statement made by Fitzgerald shows the regret of the lavish lifestyle Wales used to have. Also, Fitzgerald adds a particular element that can be over looked about excessive “wine restaurants.” Fitzgerald adds this specific account to show the reader that alcohol was presented as a lavish and divine beverage to drink back in 1920’s and 1930’s. Furthermore, in the online article written by Lendol Calder, “Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit,” Calder’s novel informs readers of the ideal “American dream” and how the paradoxical impression is achieved by consumer credit. With that being said, several examples in the introduction talk about self-fulfillment deriving from materialistic objects. Calder expresses the origin of the paradoxical expression from James Truslow Adams. Adams stated in 1913, “That the dream of a land in which life should …show more content…
Mr. Wales has unsettling relationships because of his past addiction to alcohol. During the 1920’s, Mr. Wales was known in his family for being an alcoholic, and always favored a beverage more than his family. Mr. Wales’s relationship with his Sister-in-Law (Marion) disintegrated rapidly when Marion’s sister died of sudden death. Marion believed Charlie’s alcoholic abuse pushed her into having a heart attack which caused her to die. In addition, Charlie was too unstable to take care of his daughter, Honoria. Now, in present day, Charlie argues for custody rights over his daughter with Marion arguing he has changed and alcohol is no longer an issue. Charlies argues his point to Marion when he states, “-but that’s all over. As I told you, I haven’t had more than a drink a day for over a year, and I take that drink deliberately, so that the idea of alcohol won’t get too big in my imagination…” (Fitzgerald 705). Charlie is trying to mend his relationship with Marion and his daughter because he knows his past attention was wrong. Charlie tries to put the past, destructive lifestyle behind him and live a better life that does not include the powerful addiction of alcohol. By looking deeper into alcohol abuse and how it affects relationships, the NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) provides
Five-course dinners, four francs fifty, eighteen cents, wine restaurant in Paris. For some odd reason he wished that he had” (Fitzgerald 700). This statement made by Fitzgerald shows the regret of the lavish lifestyle Wales used to have. Also, Fitzgerald adds a particular element that can be over looked about excessive “wine restaurants.” Fitzgerald adds this specific account to show the reader that alcohol was presented as a lavish and divine beverage to drink back in 1920’s and 1930’s. Furthermore, in the online article written by Lendol Calder, “Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit,” Calder’s novel informs readers of the ideal “American dream” and how the paradoxical impression is achieved by consumer credit. With that being said, several examples in the introduction talk about self-fulfillment deriving from materialistic objects. Calder expresses the origin of the paradoxical expression from James Truslow Adams. Adams stated in 1913, “That the dream of a land in which life should …show more content…
Mr. Wales has unsettling relationships because of his past addiction to alcohol. During the 1920’s, Mr. Wales was known in his family for being an alcoholic, and always favored a beverage more than his family. Mr. Wales’s relationship with his Sister-in-Law (Marion) disintegrated rapidly when Marion’s sister died of sudden death. Marion believed Charlie’s alcoholic abuse pushed her into having a heart attack which caused her to die. In addition, Charlie was too unstable to take care of his daughter, Honoria. Now, in present day, Charlie argues for custody rights over his daughter with Marion arguing he has changed and alcohol is no longer an issue. Charlies argues his point to Marion when he states, “-but that’s all over. As I told you, I haven’t had more than a drink a day for over a year, and I take that drink deliberately, so that the idea of alcohol won’t get too big in my imagination…” (Fitzgerald 705). Charlie is trying to mend his relationship with Marion and his daughter because he knows his past attention was wrong. Charlie tries to put the past, destructive lifestyle behind him and live a better life that does not include the powerful addiction of alcohol. By looking deeper into alcohol abuse and how it affects relationships, the NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) provides