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Fitzgerald's 'The Beautiful and Damned.' (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19930622
Author:Glaser, Madeleine

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses creative wordplay to indicate themes in 'The beautiful and Damned.' He reorders well-known phrases to convey his own meaning. For example, his sentence 'The victor belongs to the spoils' conveys the domination of the spoils over the victor rather than the expected reverse. In the novel Fitzgerald protrays the unnatural as contrary to the usual. His use of language provides metaphorical expression of his intention.

F. Scott Fitzgerald possessed enormous imaginative talent, which he illustrates in both his early novels and his later mature fiction. In The Beautiful ...

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