This Side of Paradise | This Side of Paradise

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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 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...

This Side of Paradise | This Side of Paradise

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