Scott Fitzgerald's letter appropriate to his relationship with his daughter Scottie at that time. Scott bashes and rips into his wife - Scottie's mother - and their wretched relationship. This is very inappropriate, tactless and selfish because Scottie was only 17 years old at the time the letter was written. This must have been heartbreaking to hear coming from her father. Scottie is a teenager struggling to grow up and she should not have to be disposed to such disharmonious news between her parents.
It also did not help make matters any better when F. Scott made claims that, "What you have done to please me or make me proud is practically negligible since the time you made yourself a good diver at camp." He then goes on to present his daughter with an ultimatum: " I am only interested by people who think and work as I do and it isn't likely that I shall change at my age, whether you will - or want to - remains to be seen." Fathers should not give their young children such harsh choices to make. They are to be there to protect them, make sacrifices for them and preserve their innocence. Not the opposite.
Although angry, F. Scott Fitzgerald still attends carefully to his audience. In the opening sentence of the letter, F. Scott writes from his daughter's point of view by calling his letter "bitter as it may seem". He also mentions that he wishes that she read the letter twice. He then reminds her again in the closing, "Will you please read this letter a second time? I wrote it over twice." F. Scott again writes from his daughter's perspective when he claims that, "You will reject it now, but at a later period some of it may come back to you as truth." .
