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How does the american culture parallel or clash with the standards of...

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:26:48 PST

How does the american culture parallel or clash with the standards of life in the text?

In both novels, the main romantic relationship is one that hinges on...

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:05:30 PST

In both novels, the main romantic relationship is one that hinges on extreme and flawed notions of romantic love, and both sets of characters harbor unrealistic expectations of what married life will be like for them. As well, the male characters show great professional and social promise while young but gradually their prospects diminish and their character tarnishes through decadence, disillusionment and loss of ambition. The two women are...

How are the protagonists relationships in The Beauiful an Damned and...

Mon, 3 Aug 2009 04:43:45 PST

How are the protagonists relationships in The Beauiful an Damned and Tender is the Night comparable?

The Beautiful and Damned vs Tender is the Night

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:12:57 PST

I'm writing a 4000 word essay comparing the deterioration of the protagonists relationships in both novels, (Gloria and Anthony's in The Beautiful and Damned and Dick and Nicole's in Tender is the Night)

Where would you say the turning point of their relationships are? How are they similar and different?

Any help related to the topic would be of great help. Thanks!

I would say it climaxes when Anthony snaps, throwing the chair at Dot. ...

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:29:18 PST

I would say it climaxes when Anthony snaps, throwing the chair at Dot. His behavior, while slowly growing increasingly erratic throughout the novel, takes a truly desperate plunge near the end as he starts drinking hopelessly, loses his friends, grows violent, etc. Just three pages from the novel's end (446), Fitzgerald narrates, "...then a thick, impenetrable darkness came down upon him and blotted out thought, rage, and madness...

I think the best answer to this question is rather to suggest that the...

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:10:25 PST

I think the best answer to this question is rather to suggest that the novel does not have a climax at all. Fitzgerald, in his portrait of decadence and dissipation, gradually diminishes Anthony and Gloria's lives until there is little left. Their fall from grace is not glamorous or dramatic like their former lives; it instead shows them dissolving into rootless and pathetic figures.

What is the climax of the novel The Beautiful and Damned?

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:58:33 PST

What is the climax of the novel The Beautiful and Damned?

The work that signaled Fitzgerald's maturity as a storyteller and...

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:54:34 PST

The work that signaled Fitzgerald's maturity as a storyteller and novelist, The Beautiful and Damned is a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age. The Beautiful and the Damned is a scathing chronicle of a dying marriage and a hedonistic society where beauty is all too fleeting. The title refers to the protagonists and ultimately to Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, who, in living the “good life” of too many parties and too much...

What is the significance of the title The Beautiful and Damned?

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:57:49 PST

What is the significance of the title The Beautiful and Damned?

The two major locations are Boston and New York. The parties take...

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:04:31 PST

The two major locations are Boston and New York. The parties take place at various locations, including Anthony's and Adam's. The final scene takes place on an oceanliner.

What are the major settings in the novel The Beautiful and Damned by F....

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:24:57 PST

What are the major settings in the novel The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald?