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this side of paradise1
Title: this side of paradise1
Category: Literature / English
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this side of paradise1
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
Book I
Many critics have complained, with justice, that a great flaw in This Side of Paradise (aside from its loose, rambling structure) is the fact that the author seems uncertain as to his own attitude. He mocks the romantic delusions or emotional melodrama of his "little rich boy," Amory Blaine, while too often he shares, or seems to share, in the delusions …showed first 75 words of 2277 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2277 total…an equally persistent dissatisfaction with the Ideal.
Unwilling or unable to sacrifice "real" success by committing himself fully to an ideal, and unwilling to sacrifice his Ideals or Dream-roles by committing himself totally to the real world, Amory fluctuates between both, and finally can identify neither. And so he is left without emotional or intellectual direction-until the war provides at least a temporary solution by eliminating the need for any commitment whatever.
(c) 1995 Simon & Schuster
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