I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise. I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend this book to other people. There was one main character throughout this novel. The main characters name was Amory Blaine. Amory Blaine was a very attractive man who was truly in love with himself. Blaine fell in love with several women throughout the book. He truly falls in love with a woman named Rosalind who eventually ends up breaking his heart by marrying someone far richer than himself. With
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Around the time of its publication‚ Fitzgerald referred to This Side of Paradise as a "quest novel." It’s a’coming of age’ novel where the protagonist Amory Blaine attempts to make peace with himself and his place in the world. The three primary elements that influence Amory on his road to self-realization are convention‚ women‚ and money. As each of the three fails him‚ he comes closer to achieving his goal. Several times in the novel‚ Amory reflects on what has influenced his development most
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Summary This Side of Paradise chronicles the life of Amory Blaine. Born the son of a wealthy and sophisticated woman‚ Beatrice‚ he attends St. Regis prep school. He is handsome‚ quite intelligent and he earns admission to Princeton. He makes many acquaintances who have the same interests as him and who become his friends such as Tom‚ Burne‚ Kerry and Dick. Toward the end of his college career‚ Amory dutifully enlists for World War l. Upon his return to America‚ Amory meets the young debutante Rosalind
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Egotism: Education‚ Economics‚ and Enjoyment A literary analysis of This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Micaela Berglund 3 White 10.26.13 The Turbo fluctuosa‚ a saltwater snail‚ spends its life climbing and falling from kelp; the snail continually builds itself up‚ simply to be knocked down again. This social pattern is likewise found in humans‚ who build up their egos to find what they need‚ lose it‚ and build again with little hesitation. Ego is built up in order to justify one’s
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Amory Blaine’s "Mirrors" in Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel This Side of Paradise‚ Amory Blaine searches for his identity by "mirroring" people he admires. However‚ these "mirrors" actually block him from finding his true self. He falls in love with women whose personalities intrigue him; he mimics the actions of men he looks up to. Eleanor Savage and Burne Holiday serve as prime examples of this. Until Amory loses his pivotal "mirror‚" Monsignor Darcy‚ he
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the grass is always greener on the other side‚ applies to real life because people are always comparing their current lifestyle to better ones‚ longing for improvements. Carleton Noyes once said‚ "The human heart has ever dreamed of a fairer world than the one it knows." In other words this means that human desire to want a better life. Even if their life presently is better than average‚ they always look for something more – for that dream world. This statement is valid found in both literature
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beginning‚ when America became independent from the England Empire in 1776‚ this great country has been making truly great Americans‚ whether if someone was African‚ White‚ Mexican or any race or ethnicity‚ America has welcomed them all with open arms. Young and old or wise and adventurous many people that have loved and lost have molded and shaped the America that is here today. During the readings of This Side of Paradise by Scott Fitzgerald‚ Armory‚ the lead character in the book‚ would distinguish
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Running head: THIS SIDE OF PARADISE This Side of Paradise - An Archetypal Criticism An archetypal approach to literature assumes that there is a collection of symbols‚ images‚ characters‚ and motifs that evokes basically the same response in all people. According to the psychologist Carl Jung‚ mankind possesses a "collective unconscious" that contains these archetypes and that is common to all of humanity. When an author uses the archetypal approach‚ he selects a universal theme through
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ This Side of Paradise‚ was his first book that he published that sparked his stardom in the world of authorship. Thomas Jefferson once said‚” If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone‚ you have already forgotten your value.” Life is quite a journey. There are numerous things that will forgo in life that will cause people to change their thinking or beliefs. The friends’ people hang out with‚ their hobbies‚ interests‚ schools and universities
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into the future. F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for being a writer from this time period‚ and is labelled as one of the “Lost Generation.” Interestingly‚ his perception of the time period is something much more bleak. The author recognized the social unrest that had been stirred up by the conflict between traditions and innovation. Many were scared of the future‚ while others pushed ahead without looking back. The angst of this time period is often recognized in the novels of the Lost Generation in
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