This Side of Paradise made Fitzegerald the money he needed to be worthy of Zelda. ... (Lanahan, 1996) With this side of Paradise Fitzgerald became the most promising writer in the world and as such, the eyes of the world were upon him. This Side of Paradise was his first foray into the self-examination of his generation. ... "(Fitzgerald, 1958)  By the age of 44, he had written 5 books and 160 short stories and yet he considered himself a failure, what mattered to him he had lost. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald", "This Side of Paradise" was a literary and monetary success, and allowed Fitzgerald the financial security to finally marry Zelda in 1920" (Bowers 4). ... Towards the end of the novel, Nick gives a sense of Gatsby's loss of hope and says: He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world. ... He finds "what a grotesque thing a rose is", meaning the beauty and luxury that all his gorgeous possessions represent, have lost their romanticized glitz. ... Fitzgerald sought the exciting lifestyle of the 20's with his earlier literary succ...

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His father soon lost a job when Fitzgerald was young, and that is when F. ... Scott published his first novel, This Side of Paradise. ... He married his first wife and then became a foreign correspondent for the newspaper and moved to Paris and fell into what was called "The Lost Generation" (Ernest Hemingway). ... Then in 1961, Ernest Hemingway unfortunately died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds and a literary icon was lost forever (Ernest Hemingway Biography). ... The work of Fitzgerald will never be lost, and every time one of his novels is re-examined there is more depth and ...

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Consequently everything in the path of this greed became destroyed and lost. ... Following a central theme of modernism, this new God watches over his paradise that has been reduced to ash-heaps by modern man. ...

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