Jan 5, 2010

This Side of Paradise | Characters/Techniques

Amory Blaine is Fitzgerald's conception of what he would like to have been in his first two decades. He is full of idealistic innocence with naive ideas about courage, honor, and duty. He sees himself as a natural aristocrat who has an exalted if nebulous destiny surely to be realized. The Monsignor, based on a very admired older friend Sigourney Fay, represents wisdom and spiritual enlightenment. He is a guide to Catholic morality and social values. Rosalind Connage is a New York debutante, wealthy and desirable, a version of the modern American woman in rebellion against the strictures...