The Beautiful and Damned (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1922
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1913-1921
- Setting: New York City and environs, and near a military training camp in South Carolina
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, South or Southerners, New York City, Marriage, Class consciousness, 1910’s, Wealth, Millionaires
- Locales: New York, NY, South Carolina
Characters Discussed
Anthony Patch, a playboy and dilettante. Most of the novel is narrated from the point of view of this good- looking, intelligent, and fundamentally decent man and concerns his moral deterioration between the ages of twenty-five and thirty- three. He stands to inherit the lion’s share of his grandfather’s estate, worth about $75 million. This inheritance has a debilitating effect on Anthony because it stifles any motive to do anything for himself, although he continues to entertain notions of writing about history. His parents died when he was a child,...
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