This Side of Paradise (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fiction of manners
- Time of Work: 1896-1919
- Setting: New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Maryland, and Minneapolis
- 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
Characters Discussed
Amory Blaine, a boy born in the Midwest to a prominent family in the process of losing its fortune. He is a pampered, privileged young boy who embarks on a quest for self- discovery that covers his years at preparatory school, at Princeton University, in the Army, and beginning a life as an adult as he pursues a career in New York. He arrives in the East full of a kind of idealistic innocence, with untested assumptions about courage, honor, duty, and a man’s place in the world, but his natural charm, earnestness, amiability, and obvious intelligence...
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