Parties, alcohol, and entertainment were the symbols of life in the 1920’s. As the first World War was ending, many young men were coming home with no idea what they wanted in life, all these men knew was the war. Many men eventually ended up turning to women and alcohol to relieve their anxiety about the war and their disillusionment with the world they came back to. A young adult in the Midwest believed that he had an exceptionally promising future. He attended boarding school, but he found himself not knowing what he wanted with his life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, This Side of Paradise, Amory Blaine spends his life in and out of schools, trying to find what he wants in life. He then moves back to Minneapolis and has a reencounter
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Regis, he got accepted into Princeton with high hopes of his social personage would sky rocket. There with his new roommates, Kerry and Burne Holiday, they tried to gain a social status in the class. They spent quite a bit of time together, but Amory somewhat isolated himself for a small period of time after being catcalled by upperclassman while at the movies with Kerry and Burne. Amory went out for the football team at Princeton, and was doing extraordinarily well, until he sustained an injury. Kerry and Amory then together join the school’s newspaper, but resign and decide it was best to just have fun the rest of the year when they realized they were not among the elite. In This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald wrote: “What Amory did that year from early September to late in the Spring was so purposeless and inconsecutive that it seems scarcely worth recording” (Fitzgerald 73). Amory and the Triangle Club take a cross-country trip where Amory comes to the realization that he very much enjoys the more risque life with women who drink, smoke cigarettes, and kiss men frequently. Because he was blessed with good looks, this life works wonders for him, and within a day, he and a very attractive young woman named Isabella fall in love. Upon Amory’s return to Princeton, he notices that he has achieved the elite social class he was looking for and was later granted into the Cottage, one of the most socially accepted clubs on campus. Isabella travels to Princeton to
Regis, he got accepted into Princeton with high hopes of his social personage would sky rocket. There with his new roommates, Kerry and Burne Holiday, they tried to gain a social status in the class. They spent quite a bit of time together, but Amory somewhat isolated himself for a small period of time after being catcalled by upperclassman while at the movies with Kerry and Burne. Amory went out for the football team at Princeton, and was doing extraordinarily well, until he sustained an injury. Kerry and Amory then together join the school’s newspaper, but resign and decide it was best to just have fun the rest of the year when they realized they were not among the elite. In This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald wrote: “What Amory did that year from early September to late in the Spring was so purposeless and inconsecutive that it seems scarcely worth recording” (Fitzgerald 73). Amory and the Triangle Club take a cross-country trip where Amory comes to the realization that he very much enjoys the more risque life with women who drink, smoke cigarettes, and kiss men frequently. Because he was blessed with good looks, this life works wonders for him, and within a day, he and a very attractive young woman named Isabella fall in love. Upon Amory’s return to Princeton, he notices that he has achieved the elite social class he was looking for and was later granted into the Cottage, one of the most socially accepted clubs on campus. Isabella travels to Princeton to