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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Comment, This Side Of Paradise

Book I

Many critics have complained, with justice, that a great flaw in This
Side of Paradise (aside from its loose, rambling structure) is the fact that
the author seems uncertain as to his own attitude. He mocks the romantic
delusions or emotional melodrama of his "little rich boy," Amory Blaine, while
too often he shares, or seems to share, in the delusions themselves.

There is, in short, a kind of "smart" pseudo-sophistication imbedded
within the narrative itself-a series of "clever comments" inserted ...

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