This Side of Paradise (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Plot: Novel of manners
- Time of Work: From 1896 to 1919
- Setting: New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Maryland, and Minneapolis
- Principal Characters: Amory Blaine, Beatrice O’Hara Blaine, Isabelle Borge, Clara Page, Rosalind Connage, Eleanor Savage, Thayer Darcy, Thomas Parke D’Invilliers, Alec Connage, Burne Holiday
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New York City, Midwest, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Upper classes, Philadelphia, Minnesota
- Locales: New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Maryland, Minneapolis, MN, New Jersey, Minnesota
The Novel
The son of Stephen Blaine and Beatrice O’Hara Blaine, Amory grows up with money. He spends his early years traveling around the United States and Mexico in his father’s private railroad car. At fifteen, he leaves his Midwestern home to attend St. Regis, a preparatory school in New Jersey, where he concentrates on football and popularity. Shortly after enrolling, he meets Monsignor Darcy, with whom he has a number of intellectual conversations and with whom he corresponds on important issues. Darcy serves as both confidant and mentor to the maturing youth, who is...
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