How does one attempt self-discovery? Often, in many novels we read of self-discovery through a traumatic event or in this case a loss of sorts. In a quest to discover their unique self, we follow young Amory Blaine, from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, from his childhood years right through his times at Princeton. He is a wealthy young man, who is brought up in a high-class society. On a similar quest …showed first 75 words of 929 total…

…showed last 75 words of 929 total…it perfectly: “… we should not play life or study it merely, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How better to learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living.” (Thoreau 42). Self-realization is anything that you want to discover about the experiment of living. Amory and Thoreau did just that— a quest for self-realization ending with less than what they began with, yet so enriched by knowledge of who they are