after World War I in the 1920’s jazz age. The life of Amory Blaine, the protagonist, is chronicled as he attends boarding school, studies at Princeton University, and becomes consumed by the materialistic tendencies of the twentieth century. Blaine falls in and out of love with a variety of women as he attempts to define his role in society. Fitzgerald depicts the culture and downfalls of the 1920’s youth through the actions and values of Amory Blaine and the many people with whom he forms relationships
Uniquely American I found one of the main characters, Amory Blaine from “The Side of Paradise” novel to be uniquely American. America is known to be a distinct nation economically, socially and politically. It is for such reasons that people from other cultures note that Americans have a unique cultural identity that goes beyond every division within their own racial, ethnic, philosophical, political and religious differences. Many Americans would also agree that despite their many differences and
The novel, “This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story about a boy from the American Midwest named Amory Blaine. Fitzgerald begins by describing a few background characteristics of Amory’s mother, Beatrice O’Hara, and his father, Stephen Blaine, and how both Beatrice and Stephen came to meet. Beatrice is described as being a very educated woman with “an educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally wealthy” (Fitzgerald 4). In contrast, Stephen
characterization in his novel This Side of Paradise to depict the life Amory or, as some say Fitzgerald, lead before he met Zelda. Amory Blaine is a young, romantic, extraordinarily handsome and somewhat egocentric college student. Fitzgerald used Amory Blaine to understand his own life. Their lives did differ in some ways, but, Amory’s experiences in school and college were Fitzgerald’s experiences. In a scene from this novel Amory and a friend visit the
The Role of Women in Amory ' s Disillusionment in This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald is a modern American short story writer and novelist. His first novel This Side of Paradise has gained him fame when it was first published in 1920 as "it was considered a revelation of the new morality of the young in the early Jazz Age" (Britannica). This Side of Paradise keeps track of Amory Blaine's attempt to conventionalize himself to a certain social class. Many elements combine together to influence
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.” In 2009, according to Erik Adler, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s contributions to american literature and culture are why we focus on him as an American Icon. From his rise to prominence as a promising young novelist, to his free-wheeling lifestyle in Europe, to his death in obscurity and re-evaluation, his life is known to aspire writers today and in the past, and is a source of equal parts inspiration and sympathy. (pg 1) Aside from having