A 5 page research paper that explores a few passages F. Scott Fitzgerald uses to implicate modernism as a destructive force. The writer focuses on the character of Tom Buchanan and his body as an allegorical method of expressing modernism, as well as Fitzgerald's sense of loss for southern gentility. Bibliography lists 6 sources. This 4 page report discusses 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel written in 1922. The writer's primary focus is on how this novel, like 'The Great Gatsby,' serves as an example of the American dream gone wrong.
Bibliography lists only the book itself as a source.
An 11 page paper dealing with the theme of Dick Diver's moral decline in Fitzgerald's novel. In order to build the writer's thesis, Diver's personality, relationship to other characters, and collapsed value system are among the many variables discussed. Bibliography lists 7 supporting critical sources. In 5 pages the author discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald and a comparison of him to the protagonists in 3 of his novels. Although all of these are fictional characters, these three men represent the characteristics, aspirations, and experiences of their author, F. Scott Fitzgerald.