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I want the pleasure of losing it again. Amory, the romantic egotist, is essentially American, and as we follow him through his career at Princeton, with its riotous gayety, its superficial vices, and its punctilious sense of honor which will tolerate nothing less than the standard set up by itself, we know that he is doing just what hundreds of thousands of young men are doing in colleges all over the country. The philosophy of Amory, which finds expression in ponderous observations, lightened occasionally by verse that one thinks could have been evolved only in the cloistered atmosphere of his age-old alma mater, is that of any other youth in his teens in whom intellectual ambition is ever seeking an outlet.
One knows always that he will be safe at the end. So he is, for he does his bit in the war, finds afterwards that his money has all gone and goes to work writing advertisements for an agency. Also, he has his supreme love affair, with Rosalind Connage, which is broken off because the nervous temperaments of both would not permit happiness.
At least, so the girl thinks. The whole story is disconnected, more or less, but loses none of its charm on that account. It could have been written only by an artist who knows how to balance his values, plus a delightful literary style. I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world. Scott Fitzgerald , The Beautiful and Damned. Not because there is something of tragedy in it—tragedy may be and often is fine and inspiring—but because its slow-moving narrative is the record of lives utterly worthless utterly futile. Not one of them shows a spark of loyalty, of honor, of devotion, of generosity, of real friendship or of real affection.
Anthony Patch, most important of them all, lacks even physical courage. The book traces, at very great length, with much repetition of a not particularly profound subtle psychological analysis and numerous dissertations, the course of his mental, moral and physical disintegration. The long conversations between Anthony and his two friends, Maury Noble and Dick Caramel, are often merely tedious and pretentious, in spite of the fact that now and then one of them does make a remark which is fairly clever. The general atmosphere of the book is an atmosphere of futility, waste and the avoidance of effort, into which the fumes of whisky penetrate more and more, until at last it fairly reeks with them.
It is to be hoped that Mr. Fitzgerald, who possesses a genuine, undeniable talent, will some day acquire a less one-sided understanding. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Short stories, novels and a play have followed with consistent regularity since he became the philosopher of the flapper with This Side of Paradise. With shrewd observation and humor he reflected the Jazz Age. Now he has said farewell to his flappers—perhaps because they have grown up—and is writing of the older sisters that have married. But marriage has not changed their world, only the locale of their parties. And it might almost be said that The Great Gatsby is the last stage of illusion in this absurd chase.
For middle age is certainly creeping up on Mr. In all great arid spots nature provides an oasis. So when the Atlantic seaboard was hermetically sealed by law, nature provided an outlet, or inlet rather, in Long Island…Both boisterous and tragic, it animates this new novel by Mr. Fitzgerald with whimsical magic and simple pathos that is realized with economy and restraint.
The story of Jay Gatsby of West Egg is told by Nick Caraway, who is one of the legion from the Middle West who have moved on to New York to win from its restless indifference—well, the aspiration that arises in the Middle West—and finds in Long Island a fascinating but dangerous playground. You will recall that the evil of that mysterious tale which so endangered the two children was never exactly stated beyond suggested generalization. The Complete Pat Hobby Stories: This side of paradise. The Complete Poetry by F. The Complete Books of F. How to write a great review.
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