This Side of Paradise | A Chronicle of Youth By Youth
In the following review, Bailey notes Fitzgerald’s youthful vigor and individual style, and calls This Side of Paradise “a convincing chronicle of youth by youth.”
“Just as the boiling pot gives off heat, so through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue.” Since this, as Mr. Fitzgerald sees it, is the process of molten youth as it takes shape and hardens, his novel is less a history of its assumption of form than of its loss of radiance. Were this all, This Side of Paradise would contain little new. More tolerantly, certainly more humorously, the same process has been set forth by a score of English novelists. But though referred to still as “the younger group,” they show by their very tolerance and humor that they have...
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