The Other Side of Paradise

Sunday, December 27th, 2009 | American Literature

I reread Gatsby this year - this is F Scott Fitzgerald’s earlier novel, his first, in fact. It’s an odd novel about a rich boy who he labels “the egotist” . It’s autobiographical I suppose, as Fitzgerald also went to a “prep” school, Princeton, and the war. I don’t really know what to say about it - it’s coming of age, but where, at the end, you don’t feel that the character has changed at all. He espouses Socialism at the end whereas he had previously pushed for the aristocracy to have all the power, but it’s still all talk. However, the book isn’t really about a boy, but a time, an age, where the rich were rich and unaware, and people were hopeful about the future. Long time ago.

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