This Side Of Paradise Amory Blaine Analysis

Family and love can be one of the most cherish able feelings in life for anyone, but mostly for Amory Blaine. In the novel This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amory Blaine has gone through many stages of love and loss. This man is the protagonist of this novel; he is an attractive Princeton University student who enjoys the art of literature. Amory explores the theme of love and social status. This title is significant because of his happiness, the love he feels and the sadness he experiences. However, “paradise” may seem very perfect, it can have many different levels. Amory Blaine is also your typical spoiled rich kid you would find in a classic novel like this. He enjoys literature, attends Princeton University and get just about whatever he wants at the time. Amory has always been an attractive man; “When Amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative mind and a taste for fancy dress”(Fitzgerald 9). He is quite the …show more content…
However, luckily the lovely Eleanor stepped into the picture to pick him up off his feet. She was his happiness until his friend Alec was found in bed with another woman and Amory took the blame. Eleanor did not want to be with a cheating man so she left him even though he knew the truth. Even if Amory’s life wasn’t as horrible as it is, to top it off his father figure passed away shortly after. Now Amory is not the most religious man, however he found himself in the hope of Heaven. His sadness and this title gives him a form of optimism for all the loss and somber he has endured. However, he never truly found himself; the last words of the novel "I know myself […] but that is all"(Fitzgerald 261). This is because the true side of paradise is the one we can’t see and won’t know until we get