This Is Now

With the help of relatives he attended Princeton and in 1917 he left Princeton and served in World War 1. While in Alabama for military training, he fell madly in love with Zelda. Fitzgerald wrote his first novel, This Side of Paradise and it appeared in March 1920. About one week after This Side of Paradise appeared Fitzgerald and Zelda married, but though their relationship started off great it quickly turned sour. By the 1930s, his wife became extremely ill and Fitzgerald took up excessive…

decadence in the novels written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald is This Side of Paradise. It was not only the first novel written by Fitzgerald, but also his most popular work till his death in 1940. (Bruccoli158).(?) The analysis of the concept of decadence in This Side of Paradise applies mainly to the main protagonist, Amory Blanie. His character, behaviour and ideology is marked by degeneration, and immorality. This Side of Paradise has a bildungsroman construction. The development…

“This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash-grey men who move dimly…

Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Published in 1925 manifests the corrupted idealism of the elite caste. This fictional story portrays the life of Jay Gatsby, a self-made man residing in the lucrative, newly wealthy West Egg section of town. Furthermore, Gatsby is stubbornly committed to climbing the social and economic latter and to winning back his beloved previous lover Daisy. Daisy now married to Tom Buchanan and mother of a young girl by the name of Pammy, lives in the distinctive East…

sense of freedom for women, social progress and social status. Throughout the text, Fitzgerald associates female characters with cars the cars represent the mobility and freedom that women in the 1920s were beginning to find. Prior to this time; women did not have this freedom, just like they rarely possessed a car. Fitzgerald recognizes the women`s changing in…

their country and how great she could become. This group of modernists were given their title “The Lost Generation” by Gertrude Stein. Stein came upon this clever name one day when a group came into her salon in Paris to discuss their aspirations. One of the Lost Generation's greatest inspirers was Ernest Hemingway, perhaps even the best Lost Generation writer. Hemingway expressed these “lost” ideas in one of his most famous novels, “The Sun Also Rises”. This novel took place in Paris and talked…

and Tom’s marriage. Gatsby tried to get in between their marriage which leads to Tom’s hatred towards Gatsby. Now that Tom has this hatred toward Gatsby he is more than happy to tell George Wilson that it was Mr. Jay Gatsby that was…

lives in a mansion in East Egg which is also a fictional place. West Egg has a description called new money. Gatsby tries to be all flashy and impressive with his money, which is very irresponsible and unwise (“Old Money V. New Money”). According to this text, it elaborates that new money is a person who just got the new wealth and uses it carelessly like Jay Gatsby buying a expensive car to show off. On the other hand, East Egg has a description called old money. It is nearly the opposite…

For a long time, the American dream has been the idea in every American’s heart. They were attracted deeply by it and believed that in this free land, everyone enjoyed the equal opportunity, and if they worked hard, they would become a millionaire from a poor guy even without a pair of shoes. However, American Dream has become an increasingly significant theme in American literature of the 20th century. Fitzgerald names that period “the Jazz Age”. The American Dream is loaded with more…

As I was laying in my bed, I knew something was not right. When I looked at my alarm clock, I realized that I overslept an hour. I jumped out of bed to quickly get ready for school. By then I knew that this would be one of the longest days of my life. I never thought as I walked out of my house that morning that I would be scared to come back through it that afternoon. I walked through the doors with my best friend as the warning bell was ringing. Audri said, “I forgot about my test in…